Almeda Facilities has won big at a national awards event that champions family businesses. The Keynsham-based firm secured the ‘Best Business to Work For’ and ‘Family Business of the Year’ titles for the South West at the National Family Business Awards. The awards are acknowledged as the...
Bristol Airport’s new chief executive officer Dave Lees took up his post today with a pledge to work with businesses, politicians and local communities to build on the airport’s success and oversee its next phase of growth. Mr Lees, pictured, joins from of Southampton Airport where he was managing...
Bristol’s industrial property sector is enjoying its most significant speculative industrial building period ever while its buoyant city centre office market is about to achieve another record rent. According to a number of recent reports on the city’s commercial property market, Bristol is increasingly competing against larger UK cities...
Businesses and individuals working in the sustainability sector will be able to get an update on Bristol’s pioneering City Leap project at an event next week. Bristol City Council aims to bring in potential partners from across the world to help the city become carbon neutral by 2050. It...
Bristol’s free street art festival Upfest has a larger area to showcase its artists’ talents when it takes place this weekend thanks to the support of a local developer. Firmstone Consortia One’s backing for the event, the largest of its kind in Europe’s, means it can extend further down Bedminster’s East...
Bristol-headquartered national communications consultancy JBP is to move from its Clifton base – its home for 23 years – into the city centre as it gears up for further growth. The firm was launched in 1984 by Jennifer Bryant-Pearson with a single office in Bristol – making it the...
Energy sector experts from Bristol law firm Burges Salmon have advised National Australia Bank (NAB) and Santander UK on the £86m financing of a portfolio of onshore wind projects across England. The Burges Salmon team was led by banking partner Nathan Curtis and provided a wide range of legal...
Bristol has missed out on becoming the home of Channel 4’s new national headquarters but is still in the running to be the location for one of its two creative hubs. Channel 4 said this week that it is still talking to Birmingham, Greater Manchester and Leeds about the...
Long-delayed plans to transform Bristol Temple Meads railway station came a step closer today with a new team appointed to develop a masterplan for it and the wider Temple Quarter. The masterplan will cover a 70-hectare zone around the iconic station, pictured, and includes Temple Island – the site...
Work on one of the remaining undeveloped parts of Bristol’s Harbourside has reached a milestone with a topping out ceremony. The Bristol office of national property group Acorn and building contractor Speller Metcalfe are redeveloping the city’s former Canon’s Marsh gasworks, now called Brandon Yard, with a 58-home scheme. The new...
International commercial building consultancy firm Malcolm Hollis has made two key promotions in its Bristol office. Richard Hunt, who joined the office in 2015 from rival GL Hearn in London, has been appointed as a senior associate. He has more than nine years’ experience in technical due diligence, party...
Creative and tech workspace in one of Bristol’s most iconic commercial buildings is now fully occupied following the arrival of its latest tenant. Branding agency Halo’s move into HERE – the former HTV West studio and HQ on Bath Road – has left the building’s asset managers Ashville operating...
Nick Allan, head of global property agency Cushman & Wakefield’s capital markets team in Bristol, has become an international partner in the firm. Nick, pictured, is one of eight international partner promotions at Cushman & Wakefield, one of the world’s largest real estate businesses with 48,000 staff in 400...
