Bodybuilding gym moves into former offices

COMMERCIAL property agent Dacres has hit a 30,000 sq ft milestone in Ilkley, after it successfully let former office space to a gym.

Heavy Metal Gym has moved into 5,200 sq ft of former office space at Riverside Business Park on Leeds Road in Ilkley. The bodybuilding and conditioning gym has expanded into the three storey building from a smaller unit within the business park.

This brings the total that Dacres has let and sold in the area to 30,000 sq ft since the start of the year.

Further lettings include several at Ilkley’s International Development Centre (IDC), where recently Support Warehouse, a sales and marketing solutions provider working with the IT industry, took almost 7,500 sq ft

Other key deals which Dacres Commercial have handled include the sale of Burley House located in Burley in Wharfedale which was sold for residential redevelopment at the start of the year.

Mark Williams from Dacres Commercial said: “Although Riverside Business Park was originally designed as an office scheme, the units have flexible layouts, which lend themselves to a number of uses, so transforming this building into a superb gym with plenty of studio space required minimal investment and makes it the ideal place for Heavy Metal to embark on its next phase of growth.”

Matthew Brear from Dacres Commercial added: “Dacres Commercial has now completed sales, lettings and renewals on more than 50,000 sq ft of office space in Ilkley and the LS29 area since the start of the year, which reinforces the strength of the out of town commercial market in prime locations.

“Lots of the businesses that we’re letting space to are expanding and see Ilkley as a great town to base themselves in, with good rail links, superb local amenities and a strong business community. “