In brief: City House; Escrick Park; West Yorkshire Truck Services; CBRE; Prospect Property Group
BRUNTWOOD has appointed the joint agency team of CBRE and Knight Frank on its City House redevelopment above Leeds City Train Station.
The property developer’s investment into City House is underway, with completion scheduled for May 2017.
The building will offer 119,210 sq ft of flexible space, with full floors available of 9,630 sq ft.
Bruntwood said it will continue to work with Network Rail on the redevelopment of Leeds train station in order for City House to be eventually linked to the train station with direct access onto the concourse.
Craig Burrow, director at Bruntwood, said: “With work now underway at City House we were keen to secure a strong agency team who could work with us to communicate our vision to future occupiers. It is an incredibly exciting project and we are delighted to welcome our agents on board.”
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FIVE companies have signed new deals for office and industrial space at a business park between York and Selby.
The latest signings Dragonfly Consulting, Tukans, IMC Toys, Ypsomed and Quattro Auto Care brings the 45,000 sq ft Escrick Park to 95% occupancy. It is now home to 25 companies.
The historic Escrick estate has been owned and managed by the Forbes Adam family for the past 350 years.
Seven redundant farmsteads on the estate, east of the A19, have undergone a £1.4m refurbishment.
Dragonfly Consulting, an acoustic, environmental and safety consultancy, has moved into the 1,000 sq ft 7 The Menagerie on the estate.
Audio visual products distribution company Tukans, which has been based at Escrick Park since 2004, has expanded into the 1,200 sq ft 3 Bramleys Barn in the Menagerie.
Expanding business IMC Toys, which has been based at the estate since 2011, has taken an extra 1,500 sq ft.
Ypsomed, a Swiss-based company specialising in homecare products and treatment for diabetes, originally took 2,000 sq ft at 1 Park Court, Riccall Road, last year and has now expanded into the 800 sq ft 2 Park Court next door.
Finally Quattro Auto Care have taken 2,000 sq ft of light industrial space at The Barley Store, Riccall Grange, having expanded and relocated from the nearby Old Granary.
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VEHICLE body building and repair business West Yorkshire Truck Services (WYTS), has expanded into new industrial premises in Bradford.
WYTS, which fabricates a range of bespoke bodies for vehicles including Luton vans, flatbed lorries and curtain sided HGVs, has experienced rapid growth over the last three years.
The company’s lease on the new 10,000 sq ft premises at GB Business Park, will accommodate its growing need for space to carry out repairs, refurbishments and tail lift fitting and will create 12 new jobs. The new unit is in addition to WYTS’s existing premises at Enterprise Court on Prince Street in the city.
Property consultant Eddisons acted on behalf of WYTS.
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CBRE Leeds has been appointed by Pullan & Sons to market Unit 3 on Bridgeway in Bradford.
The 11,756 sq ft detached warehouse/industrial unit is currently under refurbishment and sits on a site area of 0.88 acres.
Henry Watson, surveyor at CBRE Leeds, said: “We are pleased to be appointed by Pullan & Sons to bring to market Unit 3 on Bridgeway. The property is set within an excellent location with easy access to Bradford City Centre and the M606 motorway, with limited quality units across the region at present, we anticipate keen interest in this space.”
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VACANT and tenanted properties as well as commercial property and plots of development land will go under the hammer at Eddisons’ Leeds property auction tomorrow.
Nearly 30 Leeds properties will be up for auction, among a total of 65 lots, including 11 one-bedroom flats at Kingsdale Court in Seacroft.
Also on offer is a residential development site at Crank Cottage, off Albert Road in Morley, which has full planning permission for the develoment of four three-storey, five-bedroomed detached houses of around 2,200 sq ft each.
A potential residential development site at 32 Stonecliffe Drive in Farnley is being offered with a guide price of more than £30,000. The 0.14 acre plot is the site of a former garage, which has since been cleared, and is suitable for a single house or two flats.
The former Holbeck Day Centre on Holbeck Moor Road will be auctioned with a guide price of £100,000.
Further investment opportunities include an end of terrace property at 28 Shafton View, containing seven self-contained studio flats which are fully tenanted, providing an annual income of £34,500 at a guide price of upwards of £115,000, and 2 Rokeby Gardens in Headingley.
The auction will be held at Leeds United Football Club.
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AN innovative South Yorkshire office park development has been shortlisted for the commercial property of the year title in the 2016 Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Awards.
Prospect Property Group’s £10m Fountain Court Workpods scheme at Doncaster International Business Park was designed by Leeds-based Vaughan Architecture & Design, from an initial concept by Edward Architecture, and built by main contractor Henry Boot Construction.
In total, the scheme, which is set to create up to 130 local jobs, will comprise 62,000 sq ft of environmentally sustainable office space in 22 units.
Main contractor Henry Boot Construction completed the site in September 2015, building the state of the art energy efficient office buildings, known as Workpods. The project is part-financed by the European Union and has attracted £2.49m of EU funding from the Yorkshire and Humber ERDF programme 2007-13.
Jonathan Raistrick, projects director at Prospect Property Group, said: “The development has attracted a great deal of positive comment and feedback, and has been commercially successful. There has already been a lot of interest in the units, but this latest recognition by RICS at the region’s leading industry awards is a huge bonus.”
The scheme will now be considered for the regional and national titles.
