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Offices News
High tech buzz at ancient barns
10/02/05
Three innovative, high tech companies have become the first tenants to take space at Chapel Barn Business Units, a range of Grade II Listed barns in the picturesque thatched village of Merthyr Mawr near Bridgend.
Major new letting at Eastern Business Park
29/09/04
International construction group Laing O’Rourke has signed up to the Eastern Business Park office scheme in Cardiff. The firm is taking 9,000 sq ft at the Robert Hitchins owned development and former Hyder operation at St Mellons
Wales’ biggest free advertiser at Eastern Business Park
23/09/04
Ad Trader, Wales’ biggest selling free advertising publication, has taken a 3,900 sq ft suite in Building Three at Robert Hitchins’ Eastern Business Park. Previously located at Newport Road and Rumney Hill, the move facilitated the amalgamation of those two existing Cardiff offices into one premises.
RTL takes full occupancy of Waterloo House
25/08/04
Fast growing South Wales law firm RTL has taken full occupancy of all three floors at Waterloo House, Fitzalan Court in Cardiff to accommodate an additional 40 members of staff as part of its ongoing expansion in the capital.
Leading international wind farm developer establishes headquarters in Wales
11/08/04
Gamesa Energy UK Limited (GEUK), a subsidiary of Gamesa Energia, one of the world’s largest wind farm developers, has established new headquarters for its UK operations at Cedar Court, the 22,000 sq ft office village built by Robert Hitchins Limited.
New development for St Helen’s Road, Swansea
16/07/04
Andton Construction has acquired Ty John Penri, an 11,000 sq ft building on St Helen’s Road, Swansea, and is proposing a mixed development comprising a third floor extension, four retail units, a restaurant and 25 contemporary flats.
Full letting at One Kingsway
01/04/04
Number One Kingsway, Cooperative Insurance Society’s £14m, 68,000 sq ft development in the heart of Cardiff overlooking the Civic Buildings and Cardiff Castle has now been fully let. The last floor of just over 10,000 sq ft has been taken by construction consultancy Halcrow.
New office scheme for St Mellons
31/03/04
One of Cardiff’s most respected developers, D Herbert (Builders), has started construction on a new office scheme at St Mellon’s Business Park. Resolven House, which will provide in total 4,500 sq ft of offices, will be completed by the end of this year and constitutes one of the last sites on the original business park. Other occupiers in the area include Lloyds TSB, the Environment Agency, TBI, Vodaphone and Gyrus Medical.
Consultants plan expansion
29/10/03
Development Planning Partnership, one of the country’s largest independent town planning consultants which operates throughout the UK and Ireland, has taken a ten year lease at Windsor Place in Cardiff from landlord Beckerly Holdings.
Bumper year for Cooke & Arkwright
25/09/03
Cooke & Arkwright had a bumper year in its Office Agency department, with over 600,000 sq ft of office accommodation being bought, sold or let between Newport, Cardiff and Bridgend during the last 12 months.