Beal Homes has moved into its own stunning new headquarters, marking a new chapter for East Yorkshire’s family-owned housebuilder.
The Beal team has relocated across Boothferry Road at Bridgehead Business Park in Hessle to a showpiece new base as the company enters its 55th year. The £5.5 million state-of-the-art building is a major investment in the business, and is described as a powerful vote of confidence in the housing market in Hull, East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire where Beal operates.
The 20,000 sq ft, two-storey building occupies a prominent position, and provides office-based team members with a superb working environment, as well as offering industry-leading customer experience facilities.
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Located beside the region’s Porsche dealership, it features an impressive reception area and central atrium, open-plan work spaces, a boardroom, meeting and training rooms, breakout spaces and a first-floor outdoor terrace.
House-hunters are also welcome to visit, seven days a week, with the focal point a design lounge, where customers work with the company’s designers to personalise homes to fit their lifestyle and tastes. The finishing touches are being added ahead of a formal opening later this month.
Chief executive Richard Beal said: “We’re hugely excited to open a new chapter for Beal Homes in this fantastic new building. It represents a major investment in the business and in providing our excellent team with an exceptional working environment. It’s also a state-of-the-art facility for our customers and would-be buyers to drop into and enjoy the experience of finding and creating their new dream home.
“The expanded Design Lounge enables us to take the bespoke service we offer to all our Beal buyers to another level and accelerate our growth. It demonstrates our commitment to putting our buyers at the very heart of everything we do and the enhanced service we can now offer sets us further apart from other housebuilders.
“Our new building is a highly-visible showcase for the Beal brand, a place where customers can use the latest digital technology to view our developments and house types, and where our buyers will enjoy bringing their vision for their own dream new home to life.”
The region’s leading independent housebuilder has a 160-strong workforce and took the build in-house when contractor PDR Construction collapsed a year ago. It delayed the project somewhat with plans to move in last spring, with the eventual cost up £1 million on the initial £4.5 million project.
Dominic Gibbons, managing director of Hull-based Wykeland, owner and developer of Bridgehead Business Park, said: “The new Beal Homes head office is the latest major investment in a continuing story of successful development at Bridgehead. Their new office is spectacular, both inside and out, and a fantastic addition.
"Beal was the first business to make its home at Bridgehead, benefiting from the brand profile offered by such a prominent and prestigious location and the opportunity to purpose-design customer facilities to deliver their unique business model. Now Beal has invested again, to take the business to the next level. It’s a perfect example of delivery on our long-term vision for Bridgehead as a place where prestige brands invest, thrive and grow.”
Designed by Yorkshire-based architectural practice The Harris Partnership, the new building is more than twice the size of Beal’s previous base, with the interior design and fit-out delivered by Hull-based Chameleon Business Interiors once again.
Chameleon chairman Shaun Watts said: “We delivered the internal fit-out for Beal’s previous head office back in 2013, so it’s been great to continue our working relationship, creating a truly exceptional workspace that we’re very proud of.
“The interior design is centred around sustainability and wellness. The carpets are carbon neutral and the furniture has been sourced from sustainably considered manufacturers. There’s a living wall, ceiling foliage and even two trees. It’s an inspiring and contemporary space that accurately reflects the Beal culture and its vision for the future.
“For the Chameleon team it has been a pleasure working with a business that really does believe in investing in its employees. The end result is that, together, we have created an amazing new home for the Beal team and a superb place for their customers to visit.”
Beal is now finalising the sale of its former head office building, with further investment looming for the park.
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