Regional malls go under the hammer

Illingworth Research Group has moved into Orbit Developments' Hazelwood House on Tytherington Business Village, taking the whole 14,800 sq ft building to support growth ambitions.

Glass recycling business Recresco has completed a deal with Peel Ports to purchase the 12-acre site, which it has occupied as a tenant for 12 years.

The logistics developer and investor has let the whole first phase of its PLP Crewe logistics development to communications distributor Brightstar, comprising two units of 43,000 sq ft and 92,000 sq ft.

Pure Residential & Commercial has made its third and fourth senior appointments of the last six months, with Graham Bellis and Gary Bailey joining the Daresbury and St Asaph firm’s management team. 

Retailer Wren Kitchens has signed a 10-year lease on 14,000 sq ft at Junction Nine Retail Park, while almost 15,000 sq ft of deals have been struck at the Winwick Quay industrial scheme.

The global finance firm has taken an additional 19,600 sq ft of office space at the business park near Warrington in addition to the 27,000 sq ft it leased at a neighbouring building in January. 

The local authority has described as “deeply disappointing” the Secretary of State’s ruling that a mixed-use scheme proposed by Muller Property Group in Stapeley near Nantwich can go ahead, with grounds for appeal ruled out.

The logistics developer has let a 308,000 sq ft distribution unit to meal box delivery company Gousto, the first deal struck for the second phase of the Warrington industrial complex. 

Online beauty product retailer CurrentBody has become the latest occupier at Bruntwood SciTech’s £30m office complex at Alderley Park in Cheshire, taking 5,300 sq ft on a 10-year lease.