Stobart Rail has been shortlisted as one of three preferred bidders for a £25m contract to turn Carlisle Airport into a logistics hub for its sister company Stobart Logistics. The transformation includes the building of a 400,000 sq ft warehouse.
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Gallan Group has completed the first phase of its £20m Gallan Park mixed-use scheme on Watling Street, Cannock – a 70,000 sq ft industrial warehouse pre-let to Rhenus Logistics.
According to Savills’ latest European Logistics survey rents have declined six per cent in prime properties and seven per cent in secondary warehouses year-on-year.
Swedish medi-tech company Sandvik has secured a 15-year multi-million pound deal for a 112,000 sq ft orthopaedic implant and instrument production and distribution facility at JF Finnegan’s Beighton Link Business Park in South Yorkshire.
Bicycle and car parts retailer Halfords is to take a new 320,000 sq ft purpose-built distribution centre in Keresley Park, Coventry as part of its reorganisation plans for the distribution network in 2010.
Property agents across the country are reporting an increase in the number of companies enquiring about space for logistics for the first time in a year.
Enquiries are on the up, but the thought that occupiers could turn and flee again must be too dreadful to bear, says LIZA HELPS.
It’s not only a long but a lonely one, with the Midlands and North West sections of the M6 accounting for 38 per cent of the UK’s total empty warehouse space. But this might be changing. JESSICA DAVIES reports.
The shortlist for the Industrial Agents Society Awards 2009 has been revealed.
Grayson Thermal Systems has taken on the remaining ten years of a lease on a 42,440 sq ft facility at Neo Park, Wharfdale Road, Tyseley, Birmingham.
