LIFESTYLE - SUMMER 2017

The Globe Centre quickly gained a good reputation with the people of the town and frommarket traders to car dealers, bringing more trade to the area with an ever-increasing workforce. And as businesses grew so too did their space within the Globe Centre. Says Nikki: “We’ve actually got businesses here that have become very successful and have even thought about moving out into their own buildings. On reflection have decided to stay and grow and expand within the building. It’s nice to know that people are happy to come here to work. People don’t want to give up such a beautiful building whether they are expanding or downsizing.” For the partnership, the highlight of the Globe Centre project is winning and continuing to win all the business that has gone into their portfolio of space, which includes two other sites: The Chambers, Town Hall Square, Great Harwood andWaterside Business Park, St James Street, Accrington. And the enthusiasm is reflected in Globe manager Nikki who says: “As someone who worked in the building for three years prior to becoming the manager here, I really can speak from a tenant’s perspective. Although working in my own office space I really did get the feeling that I was part of a greater community. It is homely and a lovely place to be every day.”

Embarking on such a huge project was quite a gamble and as such must have been a daunting one? “Oh yeah! It was frightening, it was really frightening,” laughs Stuart. Aer consulting the council’s plans for the centre, Stuart and Barnfield Director TimWebber, stood outside and compared notes. “It was just exciting that we both had very similar feelings about what might work here and howwe could make it work,” adds Stuart. “So a lot of the building was demolished, but there were plans put in place that if we were successful with the first part of the building that we could add on to it in a very sympathetic style new build. And that is exactly what we did.” In what must have been a magical moment in time for the three-way partnership, businesses flocked to view the majestic new Globe Centre, located in the middle of town with links to the NorthWest’s major motorway networks. Says Stuart: “The Globe filled quicker than any of us thought it would and as well as people like Airtours we had Expedia and the Lancashire County Council’s telephone call centres and BT’s call centre on the site, who are still here and have announced a major recruitment drive to the area.” In addition to the large amount of square footage at the Globe Centre, there’s everything down to a one-man office if required, as the Globe Centre’s newmanager Nikki Holbrook explains: “The flexibility of our space is very appealing to business users. Another bonus is that a lot of the help associations that small business and big businesses rely on are based here. They include Hyndburn Enterprise Trust and Growth Lancashire and tenants can wander out of one door and through theirs for help and advice on their doorstep.” One of the latest businesses to join the Globe Centre family is Kleeneze a multi-level marketing company which started life in Britain 1923. Nikki, who became Globe Centre manager four months ago and previously worked in the building for a tenant, adds: “Kleeneze was bought by an American company from Express Gis, and as such had decided that they wanted to stay in Accrington and to evolve their presence here. They are moving into roughly 14,000 square feet over Easter weekend. There will be very lile disruption for the workforce again being in the centre of the town where they were previously based.” Adds Nikki: “You’ll see a wide variation of businesses throughout the building. From the beginning, the partnership was very keen to have the communications sector here. They wanted to appeal to the growing call centre type of businesses and were very fortunate to start with Airtours back in the day. Ever since then this whole site has had a huge number of people who rely not only on communications by high-speed data that’s available in fibre optics but in the communications where their staff can get off a train or a bus and walk into the building.”

I am a new tenant to The Globe Centre, but look forward to growing my business in this iconic building and bustling business centre

Our business has expanded in the Globe Centre since 2009 and we were pleased to have found extra space in the building to remodel to our needs, ending up with an ultra-modern space

Russell Livestock

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As a company we are on the cusp of enormous growth and the move to the Globe Centre marks the start of this. It is a really lovely building and the bonus has been keeping the company and staff all within Accrington

Growth Lancashire has been established at the Globe Centre for many years and is the ideal location to conduct businesses with the excellent transport links and amenities nearby

www.globecentre.globeenterprises.co.uk www.thechambers.globeenterprises.co.uk Tel 01254 607080 Email the site manager nikki@globeenterprises.org.uk

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