Work commences on £65m Sheffield city centre property development
Work is now underway on a £65m landmark development in the city.
A party of key investors flew in from China to attend a traditional Chinese style ground breaking ceremony where sand surrounding a plinth was turned over with the help of special shovels.
Construction has commenced on New Era Square, a 20-storey mixed leisure, commercial and residential development which will transform an area between London Road and Bramall Lane, close to the city centre.
New Era Development (UK) Ltd, the Sheffield-based company behind the plans, is creating a cosmopolitan, international, multi-cultural focal point. The scheme has been designed by architects Hadfield Cawkwell Davidson, also based in Sheffield, and building works are being led by Derbyshire’s Bowmer and Kirkland.
Work is being carried out to prepare the foundations for the development, which is to include retail units, food and drink outlets on the ground floor, leading out to an open air square for events. The existing KH oriental supermarket established 40 years ago will be redesigned and upgraded to the new large supermarket premises and will offer new range of products from all over the world.
The first floor will feature office space for professional service businesses, an exhibition hall and a Sheffield City Region China Business Incubator chaired by Richard Caborn to enhance enterprise and trade links between China and the UK.
From the third floor there will be approximately 700 student accommodation units, predominantly 30sqm studio rooms, plus micro-flats and student cluster flats…