An official bolt tightening event has taken place to celebrate a major construction milestone in the first phase delivery of West Bar in Sheffield city centre.
West Bar is a £300M, award-winning development that is transforming a strategically important gateway site in Sheffield to provide one million square feet of mixed-use space. This includes 500,000sq ft of new Grade-A workspace, residential apartments, new high-quality public realm, multi-storey car parking, together with new retail and leisure uses. As well as providing much-needed new housing, it will deliver the city’s largest office floorplates whilst supporting up to 8,000 new jobs.
Senior officials from project funder Legal & General visited the site to view progress on the steel frame superstructure for the first 100,000sq ft office building, No.1 West Bar, which is expected to be completed by June 2024. Construction is also well underway for the two residential blocks to provide 368 build-to-rent apartments.
Urbo (West Bar) Ltd, a joint venture between Urbo Regeneration and Peveril Securities (the development arm of the Bowmer and Kirkland Group) secured £160M of funding from Legal & General in the largest single city centre investment deal Sheffield has ever seen. It has awarded a £94M construction contract to Bowmer & Kirkland to deliver the first phase to include West Bar Square, which will be the heart of the commercial public realm area and Soho Yard which will serve the residential BTR apartments.
