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Healthy fast food café set to open at Newcastle’s Cobalt Business Park

Highbridge Business Park Ltd have let the final unit to complete the letting of their 26,000 sq ft Cobalt Central retail development at Cobalt Park in North Tyneside.

Highbridge are delighted to announce an all new Healthy Fast Food café Spud & Lettuce open on the park Jan 2015 as the name suggested they will be providing baked potatoes and power salads to the masses at Cobalt.

The diverse tenant line-up includes a 4,000 sq ft Tesco express store which anchors the central parade of shops, Greggs, Chisholm’s bookmakers, Navaho Coffee Shop, 2,850 sq ft Let to Quantum Elite Legal Professional Services & 13,700 sq ft of serviced offices on the first floor. All complimented by the weekly Tasty Thursday pop up restaurant events and other fabulous lunch time and evening events organised by the Cobalt MORE team.

Elsewhere on the park there is a 5 star Ofstead rated nursery, Village Hotel Urban Resort & Cobalt Business Exchange serviced offices. Cobalt also has great links to 100s of amenities on the outskirts of the park.

Business Manager at Spud & Lettuce, Simon Gould, said: “My vision is to provide, affordable, delicious & healthy fast food to the hungry hordes at Cobalt, in fun and comfortable surroundings for people to enjoy”

“Cobalt Park is the perfect location for us and the support we have received from Highbridge and the Cobalt management team has been fantastic from initial discussions and setting up to site wide communications to the workforce.

“We will be working closely together in the future to ensure that we’re providing a service that is tailored to the needs of the workforce, the feedback through the site team will be invaluable for us to perfect our offering.”

“There is a strong sense of community here across the different businesses, Cobalt Central is a great a space where people meet friends, relax and enjoy their down time”

@retail’s Bob Fletcher said “Due to the outstanding success of the scheme further developments to cater for the obvious demand from Food and Beverage operators are being considered by the developers Highbridge.”

Over the last 16 years Highbridge Business Park developers of Cobalt Business Park in North Tyneside have developed the scrub lands in the centre of the borough into a thriving hub for the local community.

Director of Highbridge, developers of Cobalt, Adrian Hill, said: “Cobalt has a workforce of 13,000 employees, that retail catchment, together with the surrounding residential areas, has proved to be highly attractive to the nation’s retailers.

“We are delighted to have secured the range and quality of retailers now successfully trading within Cobalt Central.

“The development is a great addition to Cobalt and adds significantly to the attractiveness of the overall development.”

“It is a testament the scale and quality of Cobalt as a business destination that we have been able to attract such a range of retailers to Cobalt Central.”

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