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The 33rd Industrial Agents Society Awards celebrated the achievements of the property sector on Thursday 24th September 2020. The annual luncheon and ceremony may have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a virtual awards ceremony taking its place, but that did not have any impact on IM Properties celebrating being recognised with two nominations and subsequent awards.
IM Properties has teamed up with an award-winning, global tech firm to create a regional testbed for a new energy-saving streetlight system at Blythe Valley Park (BVP) in Solihull.
Designed to reduce the use of electricity by up to 62.5%, the innovative smart system has been designed by Enzen, an occupier at BVP and winner of ‘Business of the Year’ at the Birmingham Signature Awards 2020 for its excellence and innovation in utilities.
IM Properties(IMP) has let 100,529 sq ft at The Hub in Birmingham on a 15-year lease to one of UPS Healthcare’s key UK operations, Polar Speed, for its new warehouse and transportation hub in the Midlands.
Hub 100 represents one of the largest industrial lettings in the city since lockdown began and reflects the ongoing resilience of the sector in the region.
Midland-based IM Properties (IMP) has pledged to tackle the challenges facing the real estate industry head-on, after the write-down of its retail assets has reduced pre-tax profit from £61m to just under £24m.
Re-adjusting the group’s portfolio’s to take account of its retail holdings stripped £35m from its headline earnings.
Tim Wooldridge, managing director of IM Properties (IMP) said the group had now rebased its investment portfolio, recognising the current difficulties within the retail and leisure sectors. Without revaluation, ‘headline profits’ would have been virtually at 2018 level.
One of the region’s largest investors is creating a £7.5m neighbourhood centre on its Blythe Valley Park (BVP) scheme, on junction 4 of the M42, to create a new focal point for the growing residential and commercial community.
IM Properties (IMP) has launched a £350,000 community fund to help local projects surrounding the new Mercia Park employment scheme.Read More
A Birmingham bingo club which lost its regular home is aiming for a full house now, thanks to a kind couple and a grant for nearly £2000 from IM Properties’ Peddimore Community Fund.
Global medical technology company, Arthrex, is relocating its UK base to IM Properties (IMP)’s Blythe Valley Park (BVP) scheme near Solihull following unprecedented growth and demand for its products.
Gymshark has taken the final unit at IM Properties’ Connexion campus on Blythe Valley Park (BVP) near Solihull, helping to futureproof the growing global fitness, apparel and accessories brand.
The 56,888 sq ft unit is Gymshark’s third letting at BVP since moving its global HQ to the site in 2018, and the second letting at Connexion, bringing its total space occupied to 130,000 sq ft on the scheme.
IM Properties (IMP) is excited to be supporting yet another local project through its Peddimore Community Fund.
Sutton Coldfield Bookfest 2020 is going ahead thanks to a £2000 grant donated jointly by IMP and Heart of England Community Foundation.
A growing, Birmingham-based company is futureproofing its business, relocating to 38,223 sq. ft of space at Blythe Valley Park near junction 4, M42.
Evac+Chair International, which has been manufacturing the world’s leading evacuation chair as well as a range of patient transportation products for more than 35 years, is moving to IM Properties’ award-winning Connexion scheme, home to some of the Midland’s biggest innovators.
It’s been an eventful and extremely busy 12 months here at IM Properties with several major schemes securing planning permission including Peddimore – set to become one of the UK’s most significant new manufacturing and logistics developments and junction 11 on the M42 (Mercia Park), delivering 3.5 million square foot of space to Jaguar Land Rover and DSV.
Social Value Agenda
Clearly, both are major milestones for the business, and of course, in planning terms, they’re a big achievement, yet what is particularly satisfying for myself and the company is the narrative surrounding our schemes and the development of our Social Value agenda.