Builders’ merchant MKM has been announced as the latest tenant of a newly completed business park in Gloucestershire.
The Hull-based firm, the largest independent in the UK trade with more than 90 branches, is set to open in a 20,000 sq ft, two-storey facility Kingsway Park, three miles south of the city of Gloucester.
The new store, which adds to MKM’s outlet in Newent in Gloucestershire, will open in November to provide trade and public customers with materials for landscaping, kitchens, bathrooms, timber, insulation, plumbing and heating. The site on Newhaven Road also includes a yard, loading area and customer car park.
Developer Robert Hitchins secured planning permission for the unit from Gloucester City Council last year, and a fresh application for MKM signs on the site has been been submitted.
MKM joins supermarkets ASDA and Lidl, wholesale chain B&M, PureGym and pub retailer Greene King on the mixed-use Kingsway development, built on the former RAF Quedgeley airbase.
Michael Plimmer, senior development manager for Robert Hitchins said the move was a “fitting way” to finish off the project, as it would help create jobs and boost the local economy.
Mr Plimmer said: “It’s great to be able to welcome our new tenant MKM to Kingsway. We are particularly pleased that they have chosen our development for their new Gloucester branch.
“The company represents another top brand which complements the existing line of occupiers and facilities at Kingsway.”
Alder King and Carter Baynes represented Robert Hitchins during talks on the deal while Adept consultancy acted for MKM.
RAF Quedgeley was closed in 1995, having previously been used for a munitions factory during the First World War and as a military aircraft storage and maintenance unit in the Second World War.
The regeneration of the site into Kingsway Village began in 2006. As well as providing housing for around 3,000 people, the neighbourhood also has two primary schools as well as a shopping hub, the Kingsway Local Centre.
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