In the Commercial Developments category you can read about UK commercial property either in the planning stage, under construction or newly completed. This includes reports on office and serviced office space, retail developments and much more.
With completion not expected until 2016, the developer behind Leeds' Victoria Gate project says the £150m retail complex is already one-third let. Work started in April on the Hammerson-backed scheme, to include one of the largest John Lewis stores... Read More
Thanks to the upcoming HS2 project, combined with an increasingly buoyant local economy, commercial property in the West Midlands is enjoying one of its strongest revivals to date. Along with industrial units, this has seen the office market enjoy a period of... Read More
TK Maxx — the European brand of US department store chain TJ Maxx — is opening a 30,000sq ft flagship store within Edinburgh's St Andrew Square development. Already the largest new retail letting in the city centre since the 2011 opening of Primark,... Read More
The developers behind the £30m transformation of Manchester's Corn Exchange have confirmed that at least a dozen caterers have already sign up for space at the prestige-dining destination. Building work on the Grade II listed building is set to be... Read More
The majority of Scotland's third quarter commercial deals were squeezed into the two weeks following the independence "No" vote, one of the country's biggest property organisations has claimed. More than £962m worth of Scottish commercial, retail and... Read More
Council planners have given the go-ahead for the rolling redevelopment of the former European headquarters of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Developer Discovery Park Ltd (DPL) bought the 180-acre site — just north of Sandwich in Kent — when Pfizer... Read More
Wigan is set to benefit from a large scale commercial development scheme, with proposals by Vale Retail expected to be approved next week. Designed by Edinburgh based Comprehensive Design Architects and covering a total of 500,000 sq ft, the £60... Read More
The Crown Estate has announced a wave of pre-lets at its much-anticipated Banbury Gateway Fashion Park, as work began on the site earlier this week. The Crown Estate, which already owns and runs a total of 16 successful retail destinations including... Read More
Manchester-based Sixtwo Architects has been hired to transform one of the city’s neglected mills into a “new type of office space with a raw industrial feel”. The commission has come from specialist regeneration developer Urban Splash which is... Read More
During the recession, a number of development schemes around the country stalled due to a lack of funding. Now, as the recovery continues to intensify, a growing number of these projects are restarting, including a £30 million retail and leisure development... Read More
Over recent years urban regeneration projects throughout the UK have resulted in a huge expansion of commercial property developments. Many of these are ongoing and will continue to deliver new business space in the future.
In addition many towns and cities have seen an expansion of out-of-town projects resulting in new business parks, shopping centres and leisure developments.
You will find stories about all of these here together with news regarding new industrial, healthcare and warehouse property. So if you want to read about the latest Grade A office space in London’s financial district or improvements to Sheffield’s retail quarter, the Commercial Development category is for you.
