All Property Week articles in ShedSelfStorage 2001
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Markets
Softly, softly
While it's not quite a case of 'crisis, what crisis?', the diverse economy of the south-west seems to be giving the region grounds for thinking that any 'landing' will be of the soft variety.
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Markets
Scottish terror
The economic slowdown has led to a series of stinging withdrawals by global corporations with offices in Scotland. We find out if, and how, the market might recover
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Insight
Tricks of the trade parks
Trade parks a cross between sheds and retail are finally getting attention, and their occupiers into hot water. Can planners succeed in securing a unique use class to rid the new concept of its gremlins?
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Markets
Save Our Sheds
As the clouds of recession thicken, small, specialist manufacturers are most likely to survive. But the bigger property drivers will save the market.
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Markets
Is it grim up north?
Take-up from manufacturing companies has virtually dried up in 2001. However, distribution companies could come to the property industry's rescue.
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Insight
Industrial facilities
Brixton this month unveiled a new company, B-Serv, which could see the industrial developer take over the ownership of Britain's biggest logistics companies' property.
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Insight
Euro vision
Since it was bought by Wal-Mart in 1999, the market has wondered about Gazeley's future. Now, after steady progress, chief executive John Duggan is driving the company into Europe.
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Markets
The great escape?
Despite talk of a recession, the Midlands industrial market is still very strong, and take-up may even exceed last year's levels. But worries are beginning to hit the area
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Insight
Cold storage
Self-storage is a slowly maturing industry. However, the increasingly individual models are confusing planners and attracting mixed reactions from investors
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Markets
Bridge over troubled water
After the agony of the BMW saga, Phoenix flew in to rescue the livelihoods of Rover workers. But can the car manufacturer transform the rest of its Longbridge site into a profitable development?
