Sixth Wellington Place building completes

The latest building on the Wellington Place development in Leeds, Number 3, has reached completion this week; with 115,000 sq ft of office and retail space over five floors.

Developers MEPC have officially opened the building, which is on the junction of Wellington Street and Northern Street. The completion of Number 3 marks the opening of the sixth building at MEPC’s Wellington Place development, part of its masterplan of 14 buildings offering in excess of 1.5m sq ft of commercial, retail, leisure and residential accommodation.

James Dipple, chief executive of MEPC, said: “This is the best new building currently available in Leeds and an important step down the road towards fulfilling our ambition to make Wellington Place the location of choice for business in the City Region.”

3 Wellington Place is a landmark building at the principal north-east gateway to Wellington Place public realm around Tower Square. The area has been transformed into a development with over 200,000 sq. ft. of high quality state of the art offices a gym, cafes, bars restaurants and business community. Occupiers which have already moved into the first offices to complete, Numbers 1, 2, 5, 6 and 10, include Sky Betting & Gaming, Shulmans LLP, Irwin Mitchell, Equifax, Brewin Dolphin and Squire Patton Boggs.

The newly completed building has a south facing roof terrace, basement parking, bike maintenance stations, electric vehicle charging points and shower/changing facilities, plus cafes and restaurants at ground level.

MEPC said the site offered some of the best eco-credentials in the city plus and that  employees could also easily fulfil their own green needs by taking advantage of the on-site allotments, free bike hire, waste segregation system and extensive open spaces with biodiverse landscaping.

 

 

 

 

Wellington Place is a  business community being built in Leeds by developer and manager MEPC, and is funded through a joint venture between Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) and Hermes Investment Management.

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