Boyes, a department store chain founded in 1881 in Scarborough, has agreed a deal for a 132,163ft² building in the North Yorkshire town.
It is set to transform the site into a new distribution centre to ‘support the company’s new store openings and ongoing expansion programme’. The facility will operate alongside Boyes’ two existing Scarborough warehouses on Havers Hill and Hopper Hill Road, with the site expected to create jobs when fully operational.
Boyes currently serves over a million customers every month from more than 70 stores across the East Midlands, the North West, Yorkshire and the North East. Its product range currently spans more than 30,000 different items.
Andrew Boyes, chairman and joint managing director of the retail firm, said: “Investing in this new site will provide considerable additional storage space to augment Boyes’ two existing distribution centres in Scarborough.
“These sites were struggling for space, for the volume of stock being handled, so having a third warehouse facility will improve efficiency and provide the capacity to open more stores, as well as helping to ensure that all our shelves are stocked with the vast range of products that make us so popular with our customers.”
The previous occupier of the site was Pindar, which formed part of the YM Group before it went into administration in 2022. Sitting within Eastfield Industrial Estate on Thornburgh Road in Scarborough, the site was marketed by Leeds-based property consultancy GV&Co.
Will Woodhall, a surveyor from GV&Co’s agency team, said: “We generated a lot of interest in this site from both potential occupiers and investors, but it’s very satisfying to agree a sale to such a well-known and longstanding Scarborough-based company.
“It’s also good news for the town as a whole, because ultimately this deal will create jobs and help to support local economic activity, as well as giving an empty building a new lease of life.”
