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.
Two of Leeds’ biggest office buildings are getting multi-million pound makeovers in a bid to transform the city’s “ugly duckling business district into a 21st century player”. The projects will also ease Yorkshire’s dire shortage of high-quality... Read More
Six years after it was approved by planners work has finally started on a £400m Black Country business and office corridor scheme. Developers claim the Walsall town centre project could eventually create as many as 3,200 new jobs. Based on the... Read More
Greater Manchester Pension Fund — which manages am £11bn pension pot for the 10 local authorities in Greater Manchester— has just spent £10m on buying a run-down shopping centre. The 17-shop precinct at Chorlton, four miles from the city centre,... Read More
Iconic British brands play a huge part in the country’s economy, with both domestic customers and visitors from overseas attracted to the established prestige of stores such as Fortnum and Mason, Harrods and Selfridges. The latter has particularly enjoyed... Read More
Eastgate Shopping Centre, in the heart of Inverness, has made the decision to further improve facilities by adding a new level to the complex, which will house an eight screen cinema along with several restaurants, it has been announced. At present,... Read More
Part of Manchester’s landmark Granada TV site — until 2013 the oldest operating purpose-built television studios in the United Kingdom — is to be turned into a new creative media hub. To be called Hello House, developer Allied London says the... Read More
The Government is being asked to pump almost £150m into a range of Midlands’ development and improvement schemes. Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) from Greater Birmingham and Solihull and the Black Country say the money is needed to kick-start or fuel... Read More
Construction has started on Swindon’s first speculative commercial property development since the economic downturn. Plans have also been unveiled for a new business park for the Wiltshire town which could create as many as 2,000 new jobs. Aimed at... Read More
Dransfield Properties has secured a loan for almost a quarter of the £42m it needs to redevelop a former South Yorkshire steelworks site. The developer has already been awarded an £8m European grant for the scheme. Ground work started last month on... Read More
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is moving from its current Coventry HQ to a new site after agreeing to lease 36,000sq ft in the city’s Friargate development. The organisation’s pre-let is the second major signing for the 37-acre... 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.
