Bathgate business centre starts to fill up

Clients at the new £2.8 million Evans Business Centre in Easter Inch, Bathgate couldn’t wait for the centre to be completed: with some finishing touches yet to be finished, the centre is already 30% let and clients – many of them young local businesses – are moving in.

Centre manager Laura Sexton believes the current economic climate is encouraging clients to sign up for the Evans Easyspace easy-in, easy-out licence:

“The uncertainty is making our licence even more popular as businesses avoid long-term commitment to commercial leases and the financial commitment that requires,” says Laura. “With our licence clients are only committed for two months, so it’s easy to up or down size, or even move on if necessary. Clients tell us the licence allows them to concentrate on their customers rather than their property.”

The new centre comprises 33 offices, nine workshops and 27 self storage units, with one of the workshops having planning consent to trade as a café. Businesses moving in include a courier company, joinery business, and a training consultancy. Marketing Matters, which provides marketing, design and print services to SMEs across Central Scotland, is one company with space at the new centre.

“Moving into an Evans Easyspace office made so much sense”, says Janice Meikle, owner of the business. “Having worked from home for four years and finding it more and more difficult logistically, the Evans Business Centre offices provide an excellent opportunity to make that first move without having to face high rent, long lease or inflexibility issues.”

She continues: “With a real shortage of flexible, competitively-priced office space available, the newly-completed centre was the obvious choice.”

The new centre has been designed to achieve a BREEAM rating of ‘Very Good’ for its environmental performance and so businesses locating there can be confident they are working in an environmentally friendly building.

“The centre is due to officially open early in 2009 and I expect it to be nearly full by then,” says Laura. “We anticipate that more than 200 people will be employed by the businesses locating here.”

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