Tag: Business Parks



Double Dutch as Henley acquires Second Rotterdam Asset

Posted on 17 July, 2015 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets, Worldwide Property News

Henley360 — a property investment fund managed by one of the UK’s fastest growing private real estate companies — has paid €8.65m (£6.41m) for a Rotterdam business park. The deal is the fund’s third acquisition on mainland Europe since its launch... Read More

GVA reports “exceptional” Six Months for Business Park take-up

Posted on 3 April, 2015 by Chris Grigorovsky under Industry News

According to the biannual survey from Bilfinger GVA, take-up on UK business parks saw a healthy increase in the second half of 2014.  At 3.2 million sq ft, it was the highest six monthly total since 1996. The combination of high demand in the South... Read More

Sterling funds “exciting” Plans with Triple sale

Posted on 8 March, 2015 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Sales and Lets

The northern focused development company, Sterling Capitol, has raised more than £7m through the sale of three of its Yorkshire assets. All three transactions were brokered by the Leeds office of Knight Frank and undertaken to allow the developer,... Read More

New Hi-Tech Business Park under development in Market Rasen

Posted on 19 December, 2014 by Chris Grigorovsky under Commercial Developments

A recently purchased plot of Market Rasen land is set to become the site of a five-star state of the art business park. The newly titled 'Kings Head Business Centre', which is located on the site of the furniture store 'Granddad’s Shed', will be able... Read More

Discovery Park Planners vote for Offices over Homes

Posted on 10 November, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

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

Airport Eco-Office Park gets Euro Cash Backing

Posted on 21 October, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

The European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) has agreed to part finance a £10m eco-friendly office scheme at one of Britain’s regional airports. Doncaster International Business Park — adjacent to the town’s Robin Hood Airport — is being... Read More

US-German Partnership Snaps Up Three More UK Parks

US-German Partnership Snaps Up Three More UK Parks
Posted on 16 October, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Business News, Commercial Sales and Lets

The German owner-managed investment company PATRIZIA AG has become joint owner of three more UK business parks as part of a £430m sell-off deal. PATRIZIA’s fifty-fifty venture with the Los Angeles-headquartered Oaktree Capital Management now makes... Read More

British Airways and John Lewis commit to Didsbury Business Park

Posted on 13 October, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Top Properties

High street retailer John Lewis and British Airways have demonstrated their commitment to a Manchester business park. The airline, which first took space at Didsbury’s Towers Business Park in 2000, has extended its lease on 55,000 sq ft for a further... Read More

New Business Park will “energise” Aberdeen Corridor

Posted on 12 October, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Work has started on a new business campus aimed at attracting world class companies to Scotland’s latest development zone. Enerfield Business Park lies within the Energetica corridor — a 30 mile area extending from Aberdeen and Peterhead and... Read More

Former Airbase expansion cleared for Take-Off

Posted on 8 October, 2014 by Cliff Goodwin under Commercial Developments

Warrington planners have given the green light to a 686,000 sq ft expansion of the mixed-use Omega development on the site of the former RAF-USAF Burtonwood airbase. Developed and managed by Omega Warrington Ltd (OWL) — a joint venture between Miller... Read More