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Glentrool Estates Group has secured deals for 23 acres of industrial land at its Sherburn2 business park near Leeds.
Portakabin, the York-based modular building manufacturer, has taken four acres at the new business park at Sherburn-in-Elmet, Selby, to base its site accommodation business, which supplies buildings across the North East and Yorkshire.
Automotive giant Ford has taken 16 acres of land for a new pre-delivery and inspection facility for new vehicle distribution operation in the north of England.
Cromwell Polythene is also nearing it first anniversary on Sherburn2, having taken occupation of their brand-new purpose-built a facility at the front of the site in July 2019.
Glentrool is transforming the 90-acre Sherburn2 at Junction 42 of the A1(M) into a business and employment park. The £105m development has the capacity to create 2,500 jobs.
Jeremy Nolan, a director of Glentrool, said: “We are very proud of having concluded these three deals at Sherburn2 during the last 12 months. They are a resounding endorsement of both the quality and the location of our development.
“Work has progressed tremendously well at Sherburn2. The high-quality Cromwell building is occupied, and two major companies, Ford and Portakabin, are now on site too. The whole infrastructure of the site is complete, meaning Sherburn2 is oven ready for development and potential occupiers.”
Josh Holmes, of property consultancy Carter Towler, joint marketing agent for Sherburn2, added: “Sherburn2 is at a very exciting stage. Glentrool’s ambitious plans are being realised.
“We have had a lot of positive interest recently from manufacturing, logistics and warehousing businesses and now we have these exceptional new occupiers on site. This is a resounding endorsement of the quality of the development.”