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Construction underway at £100 million Northshore regeneration scheme in Stockton

Work has started on site for a new Innovation Centre at Muse Developments’ £100 million Northshore regeneration scheme, adjacent to the River Tees and Stockton-on-Tees town centre.

The three-storey, 36,000 sq ft building, which is scheduled for completion in spring 2015,

is a partnership project between Muse, Stockton Council, Teesside University and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA).

The project went ahead following £2.87 million investment from the North East European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) with HCA providing the match funding.

Located centrally within the Northshore development, the building will provide flexible office space for SMEs in the digital, scientific and creative sectors.

Representatives from each of the partners, as well as the company which will carry out the construction, Esh Build - part of Esh Group - met on site to celebrate the milestone with a groundbreaking ceremony.

The Innovation Centre will be managed by Teesside University, which will offer tenants the full range of business innovation and development services, available from its Darlington and Middlesbrough campuses.

Simon Dew, senior development surveyor at Muse Developments, said: “The Innovation Centre is another important piece in the jigsaw to create a vibrant new commercial and family housing destination in an outstanding riverside location at Northshore. The Innovation Centre will provide much needed flexible space aimed at new business start-ups and growing businesses.

“We are also well under way with the delivery of a new head office for housing group Thirteen and 76 contemporary family homes, as part of the second phase of the successful Vivo residential development.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ellen Forster .