Investment platform interactive investor (ii) has chosen Aire Park – Vastint UK’s new 24-acre mixed-use district in Leeds – for its new office space in the city.
interactive investor, the UK’s number one flat-fee investment platform, will be taking the entire 4th floor of 3 South Brook Street, one of Aire Park’s first buildings. The floor will include meeting rooms, collaboration spaces and workspace for its 300-strong Leeds-based team.
The business, which has over £70 billion of assets under administration and over 450,000 customers, is the latest addition to 3 South Brook Street. The newly established South Brook Street has already attracted retirement solutions provider TPT and law firm Devonshires as occupiers and is quickly becoming a key destination for financial and professional services firms in the city.
Tipped to become the premier business address in Leeds, Aire Park’s new commercial district of South Brook Street is being designed with ESG at its heart with the buildings targeting BREEAM ‘Excellent’ certifications, an EPC A rating and Platinum WELL accreditations,
However, Vastint UK’s vision for the site goes beyond this and is focused on not just creating best in class space for occupiers but developing opportunities for them to become part of a blossoming mixed-use community, centred around the UK’s largest new city centre green park.
Michael Cronin, head of portfolio at Vastint UK, commented: “We’re thrilled to bring Interactive Investor to Aire Park to join our growing community of innovative and award-winning tenants.
“We are delivering an ambitious and thriving commercial hub at South Brook Street, which will sit alongside and support the wider mixed-use offer in this once in a generation project.”
“Once complete, Aire Park will feature Grade-A offices, creating space for over 10,000 workers and it is fantastic to be able to welcome occupiers, such as interactive investor, who share our vision for the opportunity being created at Aire Park.”
Christopher Crooks, Chief Technology Officer at interactive investor, added: “We are delighted to be moving our Leeds operations to Aire Park where we will be able to give our staff a superb working environment with the best-in-class facilities on offer. We are particularly pleased to be moving to a brownfield redevelopment site and one with such history as the Tetley’s brewery. The move will give us the additional space we need as our business grows and demonstrates ii’s long term commitment to the city of Leeds.”
The Aire Park development as a whole will span 24 acres of the city’s South Bank, delivering an expansive eight-acre public park, commercial space and over 1,350 high-quality homes with easy access to Leeds city centre and convenient routes to the train station in only seven minutes.