First phase of £350m office and retail project begins in Leeds

BAM Construction has been chosen to lead on the first phase of a £350m development at Globe Road in Leeds.

CEG selected the constructor, which will work on a 38,000 sq ft speculative site incorporating office space with a ground-floor space for retail and leisure.

Following further design work, BAM will start building the first 38,000 sq ft office development at Globe Point in early 2020.

The second phase, which also has planning permission, could come forwards simultaneously. Agents Fox Lloyd Jones and Knight Frank are identifying occupiers now, and the building could offer 138,168 sq ft with ground-floor retail and leisure.

John Phillips, director of BAM Construction in the North East, said: “This is an imaginative and bold scheme and any contractor would be excited to be involved with it.

“It’s great to see the regenerative ambition and for us, as a historic contractor, the respect shown to the region’s industrial past is inspiring.

“BAM is all about building considerately and using our opportunity to enhance lives and we will bring our modern attitudes and technical capabilities to the table and look forward to working with our partners.”

Globe Point is based in a new district within the city centre - Temple - forming a key part of the South Bank Regeneration Area of Leeds, adjacent to the train station.

It includes the 8.69 acre sites around Water Lane and Globe Road which CEG secured planning permission for 2018, as well as the historic Grade 1 listed Temple Mill, which was acquired in early 2018.

Temple will bring back to life weave and texture as a recognition of this area of the city’s legacy of wool and flax spinning, weaving and tailoring, particularly as the Water Lane site housed John Marshall’s (king of the flax industry) first two Mills in this area of Holbeck in the eighteenth century.

BAM, which is currently listed by independent sources as the largest contractor in Yorkshire, is also behind two current schemes for the University of Leeds, and the remodelling of the Yorkshire Playhouse.

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