Commercial Developments


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.


Old Market Shopping Centre opens in Hereford

Posted on 8 May, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Developments, Top Properties

British Land and Stanhope have officially cut the tape on the Old Market Shopping Centre in Hereford following a £90 million investment to improve local services. The open air shopping complex was developed by Stanhope but, as all funding was provided by... Read More

Planners give Green Light to Pioneering Sheffield Research Factory

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Britain’s first dedicated state-of-the-art research and production factory is to be constructed at Sheffield Business Park after winning city council approval. Factory 2050 is being built by the University of Sheffield (pictured) near its original... Read More

Plans to transform disused Tube Stations Revealed

Posted on 7 May, 2014 by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Developments, Top Properties

Commercial space in London is in high demand, with investors from both the UK and overseas keen to snap up properties in one of Europe’s key business capitals. However, while burgeoning skyscrapers make the headlines, there remains a relatively untapped... Read More

New York’s Hudson Yards “Spire” Site sells for £141m

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments, Commercial Sales and Lets, Worldwide Property News

New York property company Tishman Speyer has continued its acquisition of land parcels on Manhattan’s Hudson Yards development site by buying an adjacent plot that could that could see it constructing of one of the tallest buildings in the... Read More

Thirty Firms lose Ralli Courts Eviction Fight

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Demolition will make way for New Bailey regeneration A law firm which led a campaign to save its offices from destruction — claiming 30 businesses would be disrupted by the eviction — has been forced to move out of its Salford premises. Ralli... Read More

Planners set to overrule Spinningfields Objections

Posted on 6 May, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Planners are expected to rubber stamp Manchester’s latest Spinningfields development later this week — despite objections from some of the city’s top lawyers and its premier theatre venue. Barristers with chambers at the Grade II listed Cobden... Read More

Birmingham braced for Wave of Revamps and Developments

Posted on by Kirsten Kennedy under Commercial Developments

Birmingham, which is already set to benefit from the redevelopment of the Paradise Circus area of the city centre, will see two more major revamps get underway shortly. The first of these involves department store Selfridges, which has revealed plans to... Read More

Developer Guilty of Destroying Protected Bat Roost

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

A Derbyshire developer has been committed to a crown court for sentencing after magistrates found him guilty of illegally destroying a bat roost while converting a loft of a property. The Chesterfield court heard how 55-year-old Hargurdial Singh Rai,... Read More

Christianity and Commerce to share new Washington Development

Posted on 5 May, 2014 by Jodee Redmond under Commercial Developments, Worldwide Property News

JBG Cos. has entered into a partnership with ICG Properties and Rittenhouse Partners to develop a trophy office building on Washington DC’s lower 16th Street corridor. Recently, representatives from the three companies were joined by city officials... Read More

Agents appointed for Birmingham’s Paradise Circus Development

Posted on by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

CBRE and GVA — two of Birmingham’s highest profile property consultancies — have been appointed as joint agents for the first phase of the city’s ambitious Paradise Circus development. Work is due to start on the massive project later this year... Read More

Learn more about our Commercial Developments category

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.