EAST AYRSHIRE Discover the space your business needs
In East Ayrshire there is a range of support mechanisms in place to assist the business community and to attract investment. The partners in Invest East Ayrshire believe in attracting relocating companies, nurturing those already in situ and creating an environment where new start-ups can excel.
East Ayrshire is home to 3000 businesses of various sizes, employing around 44,000 people in different sectors including tourism, textiles, engineering, manufacturing, retail, food and drink and a number of niche companies. It comprises a healthy mix of traditional and modern businesses, ranging from small family firms to large international organisations.
The area offers its 120,000 residents an excellent quality of life, with a growing economy, a strong sense of community, good educational opportunities and a choice of modern and traditional housing to meet all needs and budgets. Fast, efficient transport and communications links, two international airports, good road, rail links and ferry and cargo ports are all on the doorstep, making transport logistics easy.
Our town centres are important community hubs and each has an annual programme of culture, arts and retail events to entertain and boost trade from both residents and visitors.
Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire’s principal town, is home to more than 40,000 residents and offers a diverse mix of national and local independent retailers, complemented by public services and financial service companies.
Kilmarnock is a justifiably proud town. The grand vista of John Finnie Street and the character of Bank Street; a string of fine parkland through Howard Park, Kay Park and Dean Park; and the cultural assets of the Dick Institute and Palace Theatre, to name but a few. Wedded to these physical assets is another less tangible, but no less important asset: the pride, spirit and energy of the people of Kilmarnock.
The M77 means that Kilmarnock is now more a part of metropolitan Glasgow than ever before, with a new economic relationship with the city based in part around its growing role as an affordable commuter town.
In recent years, investment of more than £40m has seen a transformation of the public realm; the revitalisation of derelict buildings into office space and new retail units; the renovation of Ayrshire’s main theatre, The Palace; the creation of the Ayrshire Athletics Arena and the completion of 205 residential units within the footprint of the town centre.
A dormant brownfield site adjacent to the town centre has recently secured UK and Scottish Government monies and
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