08/04/2008
ENET opens City Quay to new business in Tayside
Business Gateway operator Enterprise North East Trust lets Units 27–29 at City Quay
One of the largest providers of purpose built offices and meeting spaces for small businesses in the North East of Scotland is the latest company to move into City Quay, on Dundee’s Waterfront.
Enterprise North East Trust (ENET) delivers the Business Gateway service in Tayside and Grampian and the private company has signed leases to occupy Units 27-29, a total of around 6,000 sq ft.
The move means that many of Dundee and Tayside’s younger and smaller businesses will be able to use and enjoy the stunning meeting and conference rooms at City Quay.
Karen Pugh, Director of Enterprise North East Trust, said: “The City Quay development gave us the opportunity to design the internal space to create the flexible working environment that we needed. ENET has created a meeting and training room suite for the delivery of Business Gateway, office space for our Business Advisors and support team and Quayside Conference Centre which has three conference rooms that are available for hire on an hourly, half day or full day basis. The Conference Centre has all the facilities, services and equipment you need to organise a meeting or conference as well as a dedicated reception and support service and a luxurious breakout and refreshment area.”
Tim Allan, director of Unicorn Property Group, which renovated and let the property, said: “City Quay is truly a dynamic quarter of the city of Dundee, for living and for business. Alongside the outstanding living offered by Unicorn’s residential developments, we are proud that so many companies are moving into this first rate commercial accommodation on the city’s historic waterfront.”
Andrew Dandie, partner in Graham + Sibbald, which acted for Unicorn Property Group said:
“The letting of three units to ENET further underlines that the City Quay area of Dundee is the most dynamic business district in the City, with ENET joining other occupiers such as SMC Parr and EQ Chartered Accountants. Demand has been such that we will soon have successfully let or sold all the available units. Such is the success of the area that the future looks prosperous for Unicorn’s DundeeOne office development for which I am receiving a steady number of initial enquiries.”
City Quay is a development of Victorian maritime sheds which offer excellent parking and panoramic views over the River Tay in a fully modernised and specified accommodation, set in an historic riverside context.
Tim Allan commented: “Unicorn’s vision for City Quay was to preserve and celebrate the heritage of this area of the city centre – which played such an important part in Dundee’s commercial past – by bringing it up to date and turning it into a new, vibrant quarter of the city, linking the city to the River Tay.”
City Quay was acquired by Unicorn Property Group in 2005, and the company has developed Shed 26 and 27 into top quality commercial accommodation. There are 12 new Units (numbered 27 - 38) at City Quay.
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For further information please contact: Nick Ball, Five Square Property Marketing (t: 0131-466 0870 | m: 07917-860005 | e: nb@5sq.co.uk) or Morag Fraser at ENET (t: 01224-289745 | m: 07714-480492 | morag.fraser@enetrust.com)
