A BRADFORD developers is leading a project to build commercial and business units which will create 100 new jobs at the site of a shop destroyed by fire. Marrtree Investments, which was founded in Bradford in the 1940s, has acquired the 2.4-acre site of the former B&M store at Clifton Moor in York, which was destroyed by a fire in October 2018. The blaze started in the storage yard of the store and no-one was injured in the incident. The developer, which has a portfolio of more than 20 business parks located at strategic employment sites across the north of England, has plans to develop a commercial scheme including business units that could create up to 100 new jobs at the site in York.
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There are tenants already signed up for seven of the scheme’s 16 high-spec units. Part of the 950-home, 85-acre Sowerby Gateway development, close to the A19 and A1(M) at Thirsk, the development has been completed by Marrtree Investment on schedule this month, despite the pressures of ongoing Covid restrictions. Tenants have begun moving into the high-spec employment units that are the hallmark of the more than 20 Marrtree business parks located on strategic employment sites across the north of England. Building supplies firms Toolstation and Screwfix have both taken 4,000 square feet units on the site, with trade counter operations now open.
DEVELOPER Marrtree Investments, founded in Bradford, has completed the first 40,000 sq ft, £3milion phase of its £5.5m Marrtree Business Park at Thirsk, with tenants signed up for seven of the scheme’s 16 high-spec units. Part of the 950-home, 85-acre Sowerby Gateway development, close to the A19 and A1(M) at Thirsk, the development has been completed by Marrtree Investment on schedule this month. Tenants have begun moving into the high-spec employment units that are the hallmark of the more than 20 Marrtree business parks located on strategic employment sites across the north of England. Building supplies firms Toolstation and Screwfix have both taken 4,000 sq ft units on the site, with trade counter operations now open.