All articles by Guy Sheppard – Page 3
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Highway to shed heaven?
The dualling of the A50 has at last provided an alternative to the heavy congestion of the M6-M40. But does this mean that Stoke can attract big industrial occupiers and, along with them, big business opportunities?
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Coventry Is it just a put-up job?
Will the speed of development at ProLogis Park be hampered by the job-creation targets it must meet?
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Buckling the greenbelt
What s more important to the West Midlands: greenbelt land or employment-boosting investments? Birmingham City Council wants investment, Tory stalwart Sir Norman Fowler prefers fields.
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Eastern promise
The surface car parks and ageing factories that make up much of the east side of central Birmingham are the target of the city s next big development framework. But is the vision achievable, given the formidable obstacles that need to be overcome?
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Industrial action
The value of secondary industrial estates in the West Midlands has rocketed over the last year following a buying spree by institutional investors. With yields now approaching those of prime industrial stock, Guy Sheppard examines whether the prices being paid are too high
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Flight or fantasy?
Development around East Midlands Airport could help transform the region into one of Europe s top economic performers, yet surrounding cities fear it will divert investment away from them.Report on the dilemma facing regional planners
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Notebook Not so black for Lace Market
The cost of living in Nottingham s Lace Market has nearly doubled in the last two years.
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Notebook Point venture
Lottery cash has poured into leisure complex Millennium Point, but will it pull in the punters?
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Central gains
It's as if a magic spell freezing office development in Birmingham city centre has finally been broken. The 'Accelerating Development' initiative launched this month has fuelled enormous optimism among developers and agents, but is it anything more than wishful thinking?
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Niche market
Newark Allied London Properties is to invest £3.5m on expanding and upgrading St Mark s Place in Newark. Work on the 11,610 sq m (125,000 sq ft) scheme, due to start next summer, will take nine months to complete. Neil Carron, development manager for Allied, said six units of ...
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Winning the local Derby
Derby has long been a poor second to Nottingham as a shopping centre, but new plans have raised hopes of the city competing more effectively.
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Leaving the backwaters
Wellingborough looks like a bit of a backwater on the map, 10 miles east of Northampton and another five from junction 15 of the M1. Therefore it comes as little surprise that Lambert Smith Hampton closed down its office there at the end of last month, moving two of ...
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Niche market
Dudley More than 18,580 sq m (200,000 sq ft) of new retail space is planned for Dudley Town Centre when its southern bypass opens next year. The development is likely to see the return of a big supermarket to the town, as well as a significant reshaping of ...
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Crossing the fence
Are you a thirty- something industrial agent who admires the Richardson twins and one day hopes to emulate their position as the most famous property tycoons in the West Midlands? If so, you should be well placed to start realising your secret ambition. In the last two years, ...
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Sent to Coventry
Coventry has 150,000 households in its catchment, but fails to live up to its potential as a retail centre. This report examines whether a string of new schemes will improve the town's fortunes
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Give my regards to Broad Street
Fun-loving Brummies are in for the time of their lives over the next two years, but could too much of a good thing spoil the party for the investors?
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