20 November 2006
Evans Easyspace Ellesmere Port Groundbreaking
The Mayor of Ellesmere Port and Neston, Cllr Marie Lewis, officially launched the construction work on the new £3.5 million Evans Business Centre on the Pioneer Business Park, Ellesmere Port last week. Performing the groundbreaking ceremony, Cllr Lewis expressed her pleasure in this exciting development:
"Evans Easyspace is making a substantial investment in the Ellesmere Port area and providing our small and growing businesses with an ideal environment in which to flourish," she said. "This is an important development and supports our priority for encouraging entrepreurship, as well as creating valuable jobs in construction and with the companies that establish their businesses here.
"By providing high quality, flexible and affordable business space, Evans Easyspace is playing an important part in fostering business start-ups in this area. I'm pleased to be involved in launching this new centre and look forward to its opening next summer."
Paul Lakin, Head of Development at Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA), which - along with Ellesmere Port & Neston Borough Council - has provided support for the project, said:
"This groundbreaking event marks the culmination of a great deal of effort and successful partnership working between all involved in this project. I very much look forward to the completion of the business centre and to the benefit it will bring to the business community of this area."
Evans Easyspace is the UK's leading provider of flexible office and workshop space for small and growing businesses, with 40 centres around the country. The new centre in Ellesmere Port will provide 23 offices and 18 workshops on a 2.5 acre site on Pioneer Business Park. The development will bring flexible, easy in/easy out business space to Ellesmere Port early in 2007, with around 200 people likely to be employed at the centre.
Located at Pioneer Business Park next to Junction 7 of the M53, the project is part financed by the European Regional Development Fund, with match funding from the Northwest Regional Development Agency.
Ian Frostwick, Operations Director of Evans Easyspace, thanked the mayor and expressed his pleasure that the company is establishing a further centre in the North West, increasing Evans Easyspace's profile in the area as well as bringing much needed small business space to Ellesmere Port.
"We are about to open new centres in Chester and Blackpool, and we are well established in Deeside," says Ian Frostwick. "The Evans Easyspace brand is now recognised throughout the UK as synonymous with flexibility, quality and value. We are delighted to be here in Ellesmere Port and very grateful for the grant assistance from Northwest Regional Development Agency and the ERDF.
"Evans Easyspace is unique in this sector. Our speciality is flexibility: clients are able to move in quickly and easily, they can trade up or down immediately and need give only two month's notice if they wish to move on.
"Work on site has started and it is anticipated the new centre, being built by contractor CPUK Ltd of Skelmersdale, will be open in early spring 2007."
Evans Easyspace offers a national network of Evans Business Centres. Details of Evans Easyspace, its centres and service are on the web at www.evanseasyspace.com, or information is available on Freephone 0800 039 3900.