Hortons celebrates Doosan Enpure deal

DEVELOPER and property owner Hortons is celebrating one of its largest lettings in the past 12 months.

Engineering firm Doosan Enpure has taken 10,000 sq ft of office space at its scheme 2 The Limes on Parklands Business Park, Birmingham.

Doosan Enpure is a newly formed process engineering company which focuses on the water and wastewater sectors. It is owned by a multi-billion dollar South Korean company – Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction Co Ltd – whose water division sector has 40% of the world’s desalination market.

The company will occupying both floors of the two-storey 2 The Limes building.

The offices also provide room for future growth. Doosan currently employs 20 people, mainly engineers, but has plans to expand the team further as the company develops its global operations.

Steve Tommy, commercial surveyor for Birmingham-based Hortons, said: “This has been our most significant office letting in the past 12 months and demonstrates the draw of Birmingham as a base for innovation and global technology companies.

“2 The Limes lends itself to an occupier who wants to stamp its own mark on a building and have a self-contained unit that can be branded and act as statement headquarters, centrally located within the UK.”

Victoria Burnett from Jones Lang LaSalle, who act as joint letting agent with Knight Frank on 2 The Limes, added: “Hortons has an excellent reputation as a landlord which is willing to offer flexible terms and attractive rents, working hard to accommodate occupiers’ requirements and, in Doosan Enpure’s case, work to very tight deadlines.”

Parklands Business Park is located within a 200 acre mixed-use park in the Longbridge /Rubery area to the south of Birmingham.