AN ABANDONED building in Basing View is set to be transformed into flexible office space. Grosvenor House, which has been left derelict since Hampshire Constabulary moved out in 2012, has been acquired by a firm that runs eleven other hot desking offices across the south of England. Arena Business Centres plans to turn the building into 56,000 square feet of "exceptional office space", covering eleven storeys. The councillor responsible for Basing View's regeneration, Cllr John Izett, labelled the acquisition as "brilliant news". As previously reported, one of the council's top priorities for the recovery of Basingstoke and Deane after the Covid pandemic is to turn the town into an office relocation destination, providing alternatives for residents who would traditionally commute into London.