All East of England articles – Page 14
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Move fuels Aero Tec’s expansion
Fuel tank manufacturer to quadruple its presence in Milton Keynes. Christine Eade reports
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MEPC office enterprise pays off in Abingdon
Speculative schemes have benefited from enterprise zone status. Christine Eade reports.
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Clegg pledges £55.5m to put Oxford on road to innovation
City Deal funding package will improve transport and research centres. Christine Eade reports.
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Orchard Street forward funds 130,000 sq ft speculative Cambridge office scheme
Orchard Street Investment Management has agreed on behalf of clients to fund a speculative office scheme in Cambridge for £80m.
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Asda clicks into convenience plan
Supermarket to open more petrol station and Tube collect points
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Benson Elliot completes £60m debt financing
Benson Elliot has completed a £60m debt financing with Aalto Invest on a portfolio of regional offices.
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Alconbury giant ready for take-off
Urban & Civic, the regeneration vehicle set up by Nigel Hugill and Robin Butler, has won planning consent for one of the country’s largest developments — the 11m sq ft urban extension of Alconbury Weald in Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire.
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And finally … JLL’s giant Norwich let
The Norwich office of Jones Lang LaSalle was responsible for the city’s biggest letting this year — but as a tenant, not an agent.
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Ipswich retail park faces future with offices and industrial
Retail warehouse sales fund second phase of Futura’s scheme.
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Habitat unit's cosmic transformation
CosmoSONY DSC More than two years after furniture chain Habitat went into administration, the Norwich branch in London Street will reopen as Cosmo, the pan-Asian buffet restaurant (pictured), and the Gym, a budget gym. Landlord HSBC granted Cosmo a 15-year lease with five-yearly rent reviews ...
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Cambridge conservationists threaten ‘twin towers’
Brookgate awaits decision of public inquiry into demolition of Victorian terrace to make way for CB1 scheme’s next phase.
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Spicers punches hole in Cambridge sheds market
Office products distributor vacates second shed in Sawston area.
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Cambridge face-off to restore hotel’s dignity
One of Cambridge’s architectural embarrassments of the 1960s — the front of the University Arms hotel on Regent Street in the city centre — is to be demolished and replaced by a more traditional frontage.
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Bucket maker scoops up distressed factory
Harford Attachments, the Norwich-based firm that manufactures excavating buckets for mechanical diggers, has exchanged contracts to buy the factory of the failed double-glazing company, Uniglaze.
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Aviva offers right formula for BioFocus in Saffron Walden
BioFocus, the drug research company, showed that it was equally capable of property research when identifying a site for a new headquarters.
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‘AstraZeneca effect’ is shot in arm for Cambridge
The news that Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has appointed the architect behind London’s Tate Modern gallery to transform the biomedical campus near Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, into its national headquarters, ends months of speculation about the size of the scheme.
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Colchester’s Lions aligned under Sovereign Land’s asset management
Red Lion Yard and Lion Walk once formed a Roman road, running through Colchester. Like all Roman roads, it was straight.
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Occupier’s eye: all roads lead east for Aldi
Discounter targets “middle market” in eastern counties.
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Siemens takes 30,000 sq ft in Cambridge
Pace Investments has leased around 30,000 sq ft of offices at Francis House in Cambridge to technology giant Siemens, in what is one of the largest office lettings in the city centre for 2013.
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Lend Lease to asset manage Queensgate mall
Lend Lease has been lined up as the asset manager for the Queensgate shopping centre in Peterborough, in a first for the company in the UK.