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Browne Jacobson moves to Southside

Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

Law firm Browne Jacobson are to move their Nottingham office to Mowbray House, adjacent to the HM Customs and Revenue offices in the Southside Business District.

This is more great news for the growing business district and Browne Jacobson will join the likes of Capital One, Ikano, Shoosmiths, Crytek, Capital One, Nottingham City Council and East Midlands Trains.

The story from Insider Magazine:
“Browne Jacobson, which also has offices in Birmingham and London, had been looking to move out of its 44 Castle Gate offices for some time.

The firm has decided to move into the Grade A office space, which was designed by Hopkins in the 1990s. At the time it was widely seen as a pioneering green project in the UK.

Jones Lang LaSalle’s Nottingham office acted for Mapeley on the deal.

Lorraine Baggs, trade and investment manager at Invest in Nottingham told Insider: “Browne Jacobson, as one of Nottingham’s top law firms, are an integral part of the city’s business community and an active member of the Invest in Nottingham Club. We’re delighted that its roots will remain in the city during its expansion programme.

“Its move to Southside business district further strengthens the offer in the area and will encourage more occupiers to consider the new and existing schemes available.”

In 2010/11 the firm announced five new partner and 13 associate promotions. Three additional partners were recruited to the firm, including Peter Ware, Kate Andrews and Juliette Shaw, bringing the total number of lawyers at the firm to 283.

Managing partner, Iain Blatherwick, said: “We are delighted to have broken through the £35m barrier, posting our best ever turnover figures in a market which remains very competitive.

“The growth has been achieved through winning new clients and new work, by working harder and finding innovative ways of delivering our service.”

Source: Insider Magazine

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Southside to be launched at Invest in Nottingham Day

Friday, May 21st, 2010

We are excited to announce that Southside will be officially launched at Invest in Nottingham Day on 27th May 2010. The event will showcase the individual developments and the wider impact the new business district will have on Nottingham.

The launch will be one of the key events at the second Invest in Nottingham Day. The day is an opportunity to showcase what Nottingham has to offer not only a business location but also as a city for investment and development.

The event will take place at Loxley House, the new headquarters for Nottingham City Council, in the heart of the new business district.

Speakers include Roger Summerton – Chair of Nottingham Development Enterprise; Richard Mawdsley – Development Director, Peel Holdings and Steve Wood – Development Executive, Westfield amongst others.

Guests will be able to find out more about each of the schemes that make up Southside Business District, how The Hub will create a new transport interchange and how Westfield plan to redevelop Broadmarsh Shopping Centre on the edge of the business district.

To find out more on Invest in Nottingham Day and attend the event visit http://tiny.cc/tjsyy.

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Crytek join growing Nottingham office district

Monday, April 19th, 2010

Nottingham city centre is gaining a new office tenant in the form of video game company Crytek as they seek to move to a new office studio courtesy of a company acquisition.

The move will come by the end of March, as the Crytek UK branch led by the head of studio Karl Hilton, will establish new desk space in the city after the take over of Free Radical Design.

Their new studios were formerly tenanted by Free Radical, the company who created the TimeSplitters series but went in to administration as a result of the recession. Crytek have purchased the design company as of February 2009 offering staff there a valuable lifeline.

Crytek is a German company specialising in video games owned by three Turkish brothers. Their headquarters are situated in Frankfurt, but they also have office studios in Budapest, Sofia, Kiev, South Korea and Nottingham.

The new office space is thought to be in the Southside business district which includes Wilson Bowden’s Sentinel (100,000 sq ft of space) and Peel Holding’s Unity Square (200,000 sq ft).
Further plans to transform the office space provision in Nottingham include a new 200,000 sq ft multi-use development on Station Street, 45,000 sq ft at Southreef Phase II and 55,000 sq ft on behalf of the Meadows Gateway development.

Sean Akins, Managing Director of Bildurn Properties Ltd, said of the commercial property in Nottingham’s Southside, “Southside isn’t your average development area, it’s actively unfolding and certainly not just another regeneration project. Major occupiers are already resident, including Nottingham City Council, Capital One, Crytek and Shoosmiths.”

From www.needofficespace.com

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