Property round-up: YSes expands to 20 Chapel Street; Aintree Uni Hospital opens ward after £1m refurb
SERVICED office company YSes has taken 13,000 sq ft of Grade A office space at 20 Chapel Street in central Liverpool.
YSes, which also operates from Il Palazzo on Water Street, has taken the entire 2nd floor of 20 Chapel Street, which it will use to provide space for SME and start-up businesses in a self contained or shared office environment.
The firm is in the process of fitting out the space, which will be fully operational by December 2011.
Charlotte Murphy, national property consultant of YSes comments; “We are proud to be able to expand the unsurpassable service that YSes has become synonymous with in the industry in this iconic building.”
Tenants who have already taken space at 20 Chapel Street include Liverpool Football Club, Barclays Corporate, Barclays Wealth, Bank of Ireland, Broadway Malyan, Ernst & Young, Panmure Gordon, Charles Stanley Financial Services, Plexus Cotton, Fujitsu and B O Concept.
Mike Stares, director of Rumford Investments, which owns the building, said: “I think it is fair to say that we are all operating in a challenging economic market, however, interest in the remaining space in the building remains high and we hope to announce more lettings before the end of 2011.”
The agents for the scheme are Mason Owen, Hitchcock Wright & Partners and DTZ.
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A £1m refurbished ward at Liverpool’s Aintree University Hospital has welcomed its first patients following 12 months of work.
The new facility includes a new heating system, programmable lights that dim automatically at night and motion sensitive wash stations throughout.
It is one of the first fundamental redesigns of in-patient accommodation since the main hospital building was constructed in the late 1960s and signals the start of a series of upgrades that will see 18 of the hospital’s in-patient wards undergo refurbishments.
Michael Ruffley, project manager at Aintree University Hospital, said: “This was a significant project which followed eight months of consultation with staff throughout the hospital. There was a four month construction period which required us to carry out work in a functioning hospital without impacting patient care.”
The ward, which is used by patients who are recovering from surgery or treatment in Critical Care, also has curtains made of an infection-resistant material to help prevent hospital-acquired infection, a refurbished relative’s room and an integrated ceiling hoist system for moving patients.
The work was managed by the hospital’s Estates department with the design work being carried out by Taylor Young architects and Steven Hunt & Associates and the construction work being carried out by Nobles Construction, MJ Quinn Integrated Services and A & T Engineering.
