Work to begin on £100m stadium leisure development
Work is set to start on the £100m HD One leisure development, anchored by the John Smith stadium in Huddersfield.
KSDL has signed up to a joint ventyre with Commercial Development Projects, based in Elland, to deliver the HD One scheme.
It will deliver a £13m four-star Radisson hotel, ten-pin bowling alley and dozens of restaurants as well as maintaining the current facilities such as the Odeon and increasing parking.
The joint venture company has been dubbed The HD One Kirklees Limited and will be chaired by Sir John Harman, previously both chairman of KSDL and leader of Kirklees Council.
KSDL has also been working exclusively with CDP’s sister company, Marshall Construction, on finalising the scheme, with final plans presented in May.
Preparatory works are set to start straight away.
The total construction plan sees The HD One Leisure Scheme opening late in 2020. However, elements of the Scheme, such as additional car parking and the hotel, are expected to open earlier.
Gareth Davies, managing director of KSDL said: “It is very exciting to now be moving towards the delivery stage of The HD One.
“The scheme has required a huge amount of planning, including ensuring that we do not disrupt the operations of our various partners and tenants at the stadium.
“However, The HD One will provide Kirklees with a state of the art leisure destination facility that will pull people in from across the North.”
“It will also create significant new employment. CDP are excellent and very experienced partners, whom we have been working with for some time. It is also very pleasing to be working with their sister company Marshall.
“Working with a local firm like them means that in addition to the permanent employment created, most of the construction jobs will be local as well. The Scheme is real and we are totally committed to making it happen”
Simon Marshall, Group Managing Director of Marshall said: “We are very happy to have entered a JV partnership with KSDL.”
“As I told the Board of KSDL, this is an excellent scheme and together we will make it a reality.”
