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▲ Work has started to build 11 new business units at Blackpool Airport Enterprise Zone. Prospect Development NW has begun construction at Plot 109, between Lancaster House and Lockheed Court on Amy Johnson Way. Once complete, the 1.8-acre site will include warehousing and office space.
▲ A UK luxury cruise retailer’s expansion into the US has seen it generate an additional $3m (£2.3m) of sales in just four months. Chorley-based Panache Cruises opened an office in Orlando, Florida, in June but is already seeking larger premises.
▲ Sanderson Weatherall has been appointed as estate manager of the Preston City Council-owned flagship £45m-plus Animate leisure scheme. Animate, in the city centre, was delivered by Maple Grove Developments (MGD), part of Preston- based contractor Eric Wright Group.
▲ Seaside trade is thriving beyond the leisure market on the Fylde coast with The Imperial Hotel Blackpool marking a standout year in 2024 achieving a 16 per cent year-on-year increase in meetings and events revenue. Conference room revenue is forecasted to increase by 73 per cent in 2025.
▲ Burnley based digital performance marketing agency Door4 has secured three new clients. InstaGroup, Chillblast and UK Tile Sales operate across home and garden industries.
▲ Lancaster University is leading a new £4.9m project to fuel the potential of the North West cyber sector and to keep the UK at the forefront of cyber security. The CyberFocus scheme combines the strength and expertise of seven universities across the region.
▲ The hunt is on for a development partner to help transform the Frontierland site in Morecambe – a key part of the Eden project-led wider regeneration of the town. Lancaster City Council is calling for bids from commercial leisure, hospitality and mixed-use developers or consortia to promote and develop a “comprehensive” leisure and hospitality-led development.
▲ Lancaster based design agency The Design Attic has completed a project for Preston based Eric Wright Group. Business owner Matthew Brown devised an ‘innovative lighting, signage and seating scheme’ for its Wainwright’s Yard mixed use development in Kendal.
▲ Harrison Drury has strengthened its family law offering and expanded its reach after joining forces with a specialist Southport legal practice. The Preston head-quartered firm has merged with Spence Family Law (SFL)
▲ Preston-headquartered emergency power specialist, Central Power Services (CPS), has invested more than £750,000 in the acquisition of four Stage V generators and two new generator delivery vehicles, as part of its growth plans. The investment supports the company’s strategy of expanding its market- leading services nationwide.
▲ FWP has successfully overseen a multi-million-pound redevelopment at York racecourse. The Preston headquartered architecture, design and masterplanning practice provided its project management, cost consultancy and principal design expertise to the project to transform part of to the historic racecourse, one of the sport’s most famous venues.
▲ A Lancashire law firm is moving some of its operations to a new flagship office. Farleys Solicitors, which has had offices on Richmond Terrace in Blackburn since 1958, has signed a lease on a 18,679 sq ft office space on Shuttleworth Mead Business Park in Altham to meet its ambitious growth plans.
▲ HBD, part of property developer Henry Boot, has secured the green light for a new £37m GDV industrial and logistics development in Skelmersdale. TWO45 is a prime industrial and logistics scheme just minutes from the M58 and M6. The 10-acre site was acquired by HBD in 2021, with a planning application submitted in late 2023.
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