Bowmer & Kirkland has scooped a deal to build two industrial units within a \u00a3100m development in the West Midlands.<\/p>\n
The Derbyshire-headquartered contractor will deliver a 23,500 square metre building and a smaller 1,650 square metre structure on the Spark scheme in Walsall.<\/p>\n
Both are set for completion later this year and represent the first units under construction on the 18 hectare site close to the M6 motorway.<\/p>\n
The work is worth \u00a322m for Bowmer & Kirkland, a company spokesperson told Construction News<\/em>.<\/p>\n Origin, an industrial platform owned by Henry Boot\u2019s development arm HBD and Feldberg Capital, is delivering Spark on a disused site in the Black Country.<\/p>\n West Midlands mayor Richard Parker said: \u201cFor more than two decades this site in Walsall has lay derelict and abandoned. But now, following a multimillion-pound investment, it will be a site open for development \u2013 bringing in businesses, investment and jobs.<\/p>\n \u201cThis former copper works, once a place of heavy industry, is being transformed into a site ready to house modern manufacturing and logistics companies in the region. It will create hundreds of valuable jobs, but most importantly, it will be a catalyst for economic growth in the region.\u201d<\/p>\n HMB managing director Ed Hutchinson said an \u201cextremely complex\u201d remediation project had been needed to prepare the site for development.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s positive to see construction beginning on the first two units, boosting the supply of Grade A industrial and logistics space, which remains tight across the West Midlands,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n