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BURNLEY HOTSPOTS By Ged Henderson
The £23m Pioneer Place development
AMBITION FEEDS HUNGER FOR MORE INVESTMENT
Burnley was the latest destination in our Hotspots tour. We brought business, education and local government leaders together at the Prairie Sports Village as we looked to discover the borough’s special recipe for attracting investment
The large new industrial site rising out of the ground on the outskirts of Burnley gives a strong indication of the continued appetite for investment in the borough.
Frontier Park Burnley, being developed by the Issa Brothers’ company Monte Blackburn, will support hundreds of jobs.
The speculative scheme, immediately off junction nine of the M65, is being built by Barnfield Construction. It follows the success of Frontier Park in Blackburn.
The emerging development sits next to Network
65 Business Park and opposite Burnley Bridge Business Park, which are now regarded as prime locations along the M65 corridor, where occupiers include big names such as Exertis and Vodafone.
Alex Kenwright, of Monte, says: “Our confidence in Burnley and the wider Lancashire area is illustrated by our commitment to the site.”
Logistics giant Exertis has created its national distribution centre nearby. Another flagship example of Burnley’s ability to attract inward investment.
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Tens of millions of pounds have been invested in the site. The warehouse element of the building is big enough to fit five football fields within its walls and high enough to stand four double-decker buses on top of each other and still not reach the ceiling.
The town centre also shows signs of money being ploughed in to make a difference. Alongside the continued work to transform Burnley into a university town there is the £23m Pioneer Place development, with its luxury seven screen cinema, which opened to customers in September.
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