Nano Park Company: 50 new jobs expected as Skipton development completed
Around 50 jobs are set to be created after the Yorkshire-based Nano Park Company announced that its new development in Skipton is now complete.
The Bradford-based Nano Park Company specialises in creating combined workshop and office spaces.
Completion of the new space was significantly delayed due to what the company described as an "extremely awkward and protracted problem” with a distribution network operator – the company in control of energy infrastructure around a site including power lines and transformers.
Due to the issues, the new Skipton location was completed 18 months after the previously planned date.
Nano Park Company said it had brought the units to market “as soon as we could” after the issue was resolved.
The announcement of the site’s launch follows openings across West Yorkshire for Nano Park Company, including in Armley and Wakefield.
Edward Marshall, a director of the Nano Park Company, said in a statement: “The astounding success of our ground-breaking Nano Parks in Bradford, Wakefield and Armley, which are completely full, has encouraged us to repeat the model elsewhere in Yorkshire.
“We are delighted that our Skipton development is now complete, bringing much-needed flexible hybrid business spaces to this popular area.
“As one of the only speculative developers building anything at the moment, we are sure we will see strong demand.”
The company's new site, which is located within the Snaygill Industrial Estate on the southern outskirts of Skipton, features five 1,760 sq ft hybrid units.
The units combine a 50 per cent ground-floor workshop/storage layout with a 50 per cent high-specification first-floor office.
Nano Park Company said the new units had been designed specifically for “small trades, fledgling startups, and larger corporations requiring local satellite operations.”
Speaking on the launch of the new site, Jimmy Marshall, co-director of the Nano Park Company, added: “We are in the age of the entrepreneur with more and more small and start-up companies looking for self-contained space of their own.
“We expect up to 50 jobs will be created on site, providing a timely boost to the city’s economy. We are very proud of this.
“We are now providing flexible, affordable and attractive business premises to help companies of this type to grow and prosper, where they want to be.
“They were snapped up at Bradford, Wakefield and Armley, and our Huddersfield park by the M62 is progressing well.
“We have every confidence that our Skipton park will be equally successful.”