250 jobs to be created as £35m retail park ready for occupation
Work on the £35m St James Retail Park in Sheffield has completed with 100% of the 146,000 sq ft scheme pre-let ahead of its opening.
Around 250 full time jobs will be created when the park is in full operation.
Main contractor GMI has officially handed over the site to St James Securities with NFU Mutual securing tenants including Next, M&S Foodhall, Aldi, TK Maxx, Superdrug, Homesense, Wilko, Pets at Home, Mountain Warehouse, Shoezone, Card Factory, Specsavers, Greggs and Costa.
Work involved full demolition of the former Norton College building and new infrastructure works for more controlled access to the site.
Andy Bruce, managing director of GMI Construction Group, said: “We are delighted to complete this project working closely with St James Securities and delivery partners Whittam Cox Architects and Rex Procter & Partners. We completed the project exactly to schedule despite the challenges of working in a live environment, close to a main road, leisure centre and school, where pedestrian and traffic management were critical.”
St James Securities is now working with occupiers for fit out with an official opening planned in July.
Dan Murray, construction director at St James Securities said: “The project has been a huge success achieved through a lot of hard work by all the team who should all be very proud of what we have delivered here. We have raised the bar when it comes to out of town Retail Park design making the scheme stand out against other schemes up and down the country. The first class design together with the Park’s superb ring road location has made the development very attractive to tenants allowing us to fully let the scheme ahead of Practical Completion.”
