Creating a custom-built centre for pioneering and innovative digital, ICT, wireless multi-media and software companies of all sizes.
The core of the Digital Campus (formerly known as e-Campus) strategy is the creation of a custom-built city centre business park for pioneering and innovative digital, ICT, wireless multi-media and software companies of all sizes. The project aims to provide a high quality urban environment, flexible buildings and state of the art modern infrastructure all in a single location.
The development is spread across three adjacent sites. The first includes a 5,000 sq m hub building known as Electric Works, designed to strengthen small and growing companies in the creative and digital cluster, plus a further 20,000 sq m of speculative office buildings for high tech companies. The second site will improve pedestrian links to the station and city centre and accommodate up to 5,000 sq m of office space; and the third and final site will encompass the land next to the station, replacing the demolished Sheaf House and Dyson House with a further 23,000 sq m of office space.
Outputs
- 3 ha of land redeveloped
- 50,000 sq m of quality commercial floorspace
- 2,300 jobs.
Progress to Date
The main development agreement between Yorkshire Forward and the developers, Scarborough Development Group Plc and GMI Holdings Ltd (SDG/GMI), was signed in 2006 and includes obligations to promote the Digital Campus to the target market and draw down plots by agreed milestone dates.
The first phase of development got underway in early 2007 including the servicing of the whole of the first site and the construction of Electric Works, together with the first speculative 5,000 sq m of office accommodation.
Electric Works was opened for business in March 2009, with building number 2 being completed in late 2008. Creative Space Management manage the Electric Works on behalf of the Sheffield City Council, they were appointed in February 2007. Vacant possession of the Phase 3 site (next to the station) was obtained in 2008. Yorkshire Forward and Creative Sheffield are working with SDG to bring forward a scheme on this prominent and important site.
If you are interested in taking space in Sheffield Digital Campus have a look here.
For the main website please click on the following link: http://www.sheffielddigitalcampus.com/