Work has started on Bristol’s £11.6m Filwood Green Business Park – a key part of the city’s preparations for its role as 2015 European Green Capital. Designed by Bristol architects Stride Treglown, the South Bristol development will provide 40,000 sq ft of workshop and office space and is expected...
Bristol’s potential as an area for innovative and sustainable development will be showcased to the world’s largest commercial property industry gathering this week. Two events at MIPIM, the annual international property investment conference held in the South of France, will highlight development opportunities in Bristol and Bath and explain...
Frozen food retail chain Farmfoods is to build a major logistics centre at Bristol’s Central Park, the South West’s largest distribution scheme – delivering a further boost to the region’s recovering industrial property market. The 175,000 sq ft temperature-controlled distribution centre will be built by Central Park owner Delta...
Bristol-based student accommodation specialist Unite is to raise around £100m through new shares to speed up its development programme in key UK university cities. The firm said half the new funding would be used in this way to take advantage of cyclically-low development costs. The other half will be...
Bristol concert venue Colston Hall is to unveil its two new-look café/bars this evening following a major refurbishment by Bath Ales, the independent brewer and restaurant chain which took over the iconic building’s food and drink contract last November. Bath Ales has transformed the first-floor restaurant into a charcuterie...
Bristol’s role as the UK’s most-competitive and innovative city will be demonstrated at the highest-profile gathering of the global property market next month. MIPIM, staged annually in Cannes, brings together the most senior players in international property development and investment and acts as a showcase for business and development...
A radical regeneration of the area around Bristol Temple Meads station and the new arena site to improve access for pedestrians and cyclists is being put forward for nearly £21m in funding. The scheme will vastly improve the semi-derelict Temple Circus – an eyesore for decades – and provide...
Verve Properties, the niche developer behind Bristol's highly-successful Paintworks creative quarter, has started work on the first speculative office refurbishment in the city for five years as the market recovery continues to gathers pace. London-based Verve said it saw a gap in the Bristol office market for trendy office...
Bristol-based property developer Ashfield Land has joined forces with housebuilder Barratt Developments for one of its largest schemes so far – a £600m, 2,450-home development in Buckinghamshire. Ashfield – a major landowner near Bristol and best known in the city for its redevelopment of the landmark former Maples store...
From Bristol 24-7 www.bristol247.com Supporters of Bristol Rovers’ plans to sell its Memorial Stadium for a supermarket development are to visit Downing Street to hand in a petition backing the project. Prime Minister David Cameron will receive the 12,000-signature petition next Wednesday by fans, club chairman Nick Higgs and...
West firms of all sizes are being urged to enter their directors in the region’s top award scheme recognising excellence and enterprise in the boardroom. The South West Institute of Directors (IoD) Awards 2014 celebrate the achievements of the region’s outstanding business people and their contribution to the its...
Commercial property owners and investors could lose out on hundreds of thousands of pounds of tax relief under new capital allowance rules that come into force in April. The changes will restrict an owner’s ability to claim relief on the cost of the fixtures and fittings of a commercial...
The Bristol Old Vic, which celebrates its 250thanniversary in 2016, has launched a membership scheme for the city’s business community to help secure the future of the theatre for another 250 years. Called The Twenty Twenty Club, the scheme has already signed up its first member – international property...
