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This short commentary piece has not been written tell you what I think you already know, but instead I am going to provide my own thoughts on what is going to influence global capital flows over the next 12 months and what I think is worth keeping an eye on for the future. In any […]

There’s a slightly hollow feeling about the faded business park which was once home to Pfizer’s bustling R&D community and supported thousands of jobs in the nearby Kent town of Sandwich. Vacant buildings and a distinct lack of people in this vast 297-acre campus are hard to ignore. Outdoor patios with tables and chairs, which […]

Award-winning drama The Tunnel – shot across Kent – returns with an explosive second series next month. The production returned to Discovery Park in Sandwich and filmed for 85 days in between April and July 2015. The production spent a further 50 days in the county for pre and post-production, spending an estimated £1.5 million […]

Opus Land is delighted to announce their most recent appointment of Tom Edgar, joining us from GBR Phoenix Beard. Tom will join the company as an Associate Development Director and joins into our ever busy development team. Tom’s role will be to seek new trading opportunities for the business and to deliver those projects alongside […]

Developers Opus North expect to finally start work on the Bay Shopping Park in May. A spokesman said May was looking likely as long as there were no last-minute hitches with appointing a builder and finalising names of retailers. Work on the former Frontierland site was originally due to start last September but was delayed. […]

It was once a thriving factory on one of the busiest road routes in Leeds. But since manufacturing firm Denso Marston switched to new premises in Shipley in the 1990s, the Armley Road-based building has fallen into a state of disrepair. Now, however, work is under way on the transformation of the “eyesore” four-acre site […]

Discovery Park was created on 31 July 2012 when Pfizer sold its 220 acre R&D site to Discovery Park Ltd (“DPL”), a consortium between Palmer Capital, Trevor Cartner and Chris Musgrave. Pfizer retained about 10 percent of its floor area on a leasehold basis. The challenge DPL faced a challenging task of attracting new occupiers […]

In a series of off market transactions Danescroft Land backed by Palmer Capital have acquired three adjoining properties in the centre of West Drayton for a major residential redevelopment for just under £7M. The combined sites comprise over one acre and offer the potential for the development of over 80 residential apartments in three blocks. […]

VINCI Developments has been selected to bring forward a major new science park in Harlow with a development value of more than £110m. Harlow council picked VINCI to develop the 25-acre site after shortlisting the firm alongside MEPC and Morgan Sindall last summer. VINCI will work with Discovery Park, the consortium behind the regeneration of […]

Two new tenants have been secured for Aberdeen Asset Management’s AB1 office complex in the heart of Aberdeen city centre. The development was officially re-opened earlier this year after a multi-million pound refurbishment project, undertaken in a joint venture with Manse LLP, was completed on the Huntly Street site formerly known as Langlands House. The […]