DCI_Gene_Hunt
Well-known member
@rob_fmttmI think they have filled those new offices already built and clearly have demand for more.
The empty office blocks in town are not owned by the council, are very dated and largely deliberately left to be empty because the owner has other agendas for them like student accommodation etc.
The new office blocks which were completed in 2019 was it (or earlier?) are only 85% occupied - how many of those are new jobs versus just transferring existing jobs from the town and leaving offices empty somewhere else.
What makes you say there is a clear demand for more offices?
I'd question the demand for new office space of this magnitude in Middlesbrough town centre - just about the only green open space in the town will be destroyed.
Has anyone seen the plans? How does the Town Hall and the Library fit into all this?
Building offices in the vain hope of getting the Treasury jobs (which we are never going to get) seems like madness to me.