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Debenhams’ Development Director Visits Flemingate
Debenhams’ development director, Rob Hatfield, paid a visit to Beverley last month to assess progress at East Yorkshire’s premier retail and leisure development, Flemingate. The high street retailer will form the anchor store at the Flemingate development, occupying a 40,000sqft unit on the site which is forecast to open in late October. Along with Debenhams,…
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Flourishing Tech Economy Fuels Interest At C4DI
The growth of Hull’s digital and tech economy is fuelling interest in the city’s most eagerly anticipated office development. Three of the city’s most exciting tech businesses – Woof, Consult Dan and Forward Thinker Developments – have signed up to lease office space at C4DI (the Centre for Digital Innovation). The three companies are currently…
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Escada Group Announced As First Company To Move To C4DI
Landmark office development the Centre for Digital Innovation (C4DI) has secured its first office tenant. The Escada Group, an international hardware and software developer and market leading supplier of control systems to the corrugated paper manufacturing industry, is to lease a 2000sqft unit on the second floor of the building. Developed by Hull-based commercial developer,…
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School Site Visits Resounding Success
Building on its highly successful engagement programme with two local schools, All Saints Juniors and Hessle High, Wykeland recently invited pupils to come to Bridgehead and see one of the construction sites under development. 25 children, aged 9-10 from All Saints made the visit, along with 15 engineering and resistant materials pupils from Hessle High.…
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Lunchtime Walks With Yorkshire Wildlife Trust
A message from Harriet Linfoot, Development Officer for the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust: “As many of you know Bridgehead is a unique business park. Raised up and flanking the park is a mature woodland with a 1km nature trail running through it. This woodland is being managed and improved for wildlife by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. The…
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Wykeland Hand Over New Rofin Sinar Facility
Rofin Sinar has taken possession of its new 80,000 sq ft office, research and development and hi-tech manufacturing facility following practical completion in early May. It is the largest building developed at Bridgehead by Wykeland to date and was built by Havercroft Construction, the Briggbased commercial contractor. Work is now progressing on Rofin Sinar’s internal…
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A Home For Nature – Wild Art At Bridgehead
Alongside the busy schedule to deliver buildings in the business park, another construction team have been busily beavering away at Bridgehead. Throughout the winter months and into spring, children from nearby All Saints Juniors and pupils from Hessle High have been working with artist Liz Dorton in winter woodland workshops. They are making a series…
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New Restaurant Proposed Next To Bridgehead
Leading pub retailer and brewer Greene King has recently submitted a planning application for a new restaurant adjacent to Bridgehead Business Park after seeking the views of the local community as part of a pre-application consultation. If approved, the plans for a new Farmhouse Inn will provide a complementary facility for staff and visitors to…
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Another Major Hull Business Is Moving To Bridgehead
One of Hull’s best performing companies of the past decade, SGS International will be relocating its European HQ into new offices at Bridgehead in Autumn 2015. The company, a world leader in the production and management of brand communications, has signed a lease agreement with the Bridgehead developer, Wykeland Group, for a new-build 18,000 sq.ft…
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Wykeland Appoints Flemingate Centre Manager
Wykeland Group has today announced the appointment of Graham Tait as the Centre Manager of Flemingate, Wykeland’s 162,561 sq ft retail and leisure development in Beverley. Graham joins from Westfield Stratford, where he was a senior projects delivery manager. Under construction and opening in October, Flemingate is anchored by a 40,000 sq ft new concept…