🎳 Meet Radu! He's the Centre Manager for Hollywood Bowl Group Plc, located within Preston's brand-new Animate entertainment complex, due to open in early 2025. Read more about the new bowling centre due to open, and what you can expect from a visit there 👉 https://lnkd.in/eEkEAXXt #HollywoodBowl #InvestPreston #AnimatePreston #LancashireBusiness
Invest Preston
Government Administration
Preston, Lancashire 1,617 followers
Preston is a growing economic power base in the North West. Now is the time to Invest in Preston.
About us
Preston is a vibrant up-and-coming northern city at the heart of not only Lancashire and the North West but the UK too, with unrivalled rail and road access and two international airports within an hour's drive. The city is confident and business-friendly, with plenty of true Lancashire character and enormous potential for growth. Currently benefiting from City Deal, the award-winning City Living Strategy, Transforming Cities and Towns Fund investment, Preston has a successful track record of public-private partnerships, offers fast track growth and is a UK development hotspot with £2.3 billion in leveraged commercial investment, 17,420 new homes and 20,000 jobs on the horizon. The city has also developed a 15-year City Investment Plan (2020 - 2035) setting out its vision to transform Preston and maintain the momentum of positive change happening across the city to ensure the richness of life is within reach for the people of Preston. Furthermore, Preston remains committed to welcoming new businesses and investors, large and small, offering competitive employment costs, affordable and convenient office accommodation, a skilled workforce and excellent quality of life. With wide-ranging development opportunities taking place across the city to further stimulate that growth and establish Preston as an economic power base of the North West, now is the time to Invest in Preston.
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https://investprestoncity.com
External link for Invest Preston
- Industry
- Government Administration
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Preston, Lancashire
- Type
- Government Agency
- Specialties
- Regeneration, Social value, Community Wealth Building, Preston Model, and Economic growth
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Town Hall
Lancaster Road,
Preston, Lancashire PR1 2R, GB
Updates
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🌲 Branching out at the Animate development! 🌿 This week, landscaping work has been underway, to enhance the exterior with beautiful trees and shrubbery, creating inviting green spaces for the community outside of the flagship council-owned development. Stay tuned for more updates as we bring this vibrant project to life ✨ #AnimatePreston #UrbanSpaces #TownsFund #Preston Preston City Council | MAPLE GROVE DEVELOPMENTS LIMITED | Preston Partnership
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Work has concluded this year on Tram Bridge as the project scales back for Winter. 🚶 Through Winter, the footpath will be temporarily reopened for the public to enjoy. https://lnkd.in/erDgiRBU
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📣 SME owners: Chamber Low Carbon, in collaboration with the University of Central Lancashire, is offering a series of six fully funded sustainability workshops for businesses in Burnley, Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Lancaster, Pendle and Preston. This action learning session is free to attend and includes lunch. The workshop will explore creating a carbon action plan for your business; from understanding your carbon footprint, to setting goals, through to developing and implementing an action plan. 📅 Tuesday 14 January 2025, 9am-1pm 📍Lancaster & Morecambe College, Morecambe Road, Lancaster. LA1 2TY. Find more information and book here 👉 https://lnkd.in/e8DkFAup #CarbonReduction #NetZero #LancashireBusinesses #SustainableBusiness Preston City Council | Preston Partnership | Boost; Lancashire's Business Growth Hub
Carbon in Business Action Learning Sets
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✨ Preston's nine Grade two-listed red telephone boxes are set for an historic face-lift as they are removed from Market Street today for restoration. Read more: https://lnkd.in/guUQ4YmT
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📣 Unit to let at Preston’s flagship Animate development… There’s just *one* final unit (10,270 sq ft) left to let, inside the brand-new £45m Animate cinema and entertainment scheme, nestled in the heart of Preston’s city centre. The space available will offer a Competitive Social Unit (CSU) on the upper level. The unit is suitable for a variety of activity-led experiences with social games and activities from junkyard golf and axe-throwing to indoor sports, creating a fun and inclusive leisure destination. This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of Preston's growing success story 🌟 ☎️ Interested? For further information, please contact the letting agents listed on this page 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSdFs5N2 #AnimatePreston #InvestPreston #TownsFund Preston City Council | Preston Partnership | Preston Innovates
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We’ve been ranked in the top 20 of English universities for social mobility according to the latest Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) English Social Mobility Index 👏👏👏 The Index measures how life chances of disadvantaged students are improved during their time at university and we’re proud to share that we are ranked 18th out of 100 institutions in England, placing us fourth in the North West. Learn more about what this means 👇 https://lnkd.in/erC_TMpX
University of Central Lancashire in top 20 of English universities for social mobility
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✨🎄 Discover the festive magic happening in and around Preston this Christmas season, with plenty of events and activities to enjoy for all of the family 👉 https://lnkd.in/ezS3fx39 #Christmas #ProudPreston #InvestPreston #LancashireBusiness
Christmas in Preston 2024 - Visit Preston
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📊 Great to see #ProudPreston ranking in the 10 most entrepreneurial cities in the UK 🥳 According to the Oxford Dictionary, an entrepreneurial city is a ‘city governed in ways that encourage private sector solutions to urban challenges rather than dependence on central government support through public expenditure.’ Read Wildcat Digital’s report here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eExRYsrE #LancashireBusiness #PrestonCity #InvestPreston #Entrepreneurs Preston City Council | Preston Partnership | Preston Innovates
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🏛 The careful restoration of the Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library continues, and is now in the final stages towards completion 🥳 In the first image, you can see that the external scaffolding has now been removed, showcasing the grand stone exterior of the museum. The interior image displays the beautiful balcony and ceiling restoration work. Expected to be completed in early spring, the historic Harris Museum will soon reopen its doors to the public. Keep up to date with the transformation journey here 👉 https://lnkd.in/gjRrBKBQ Preston City Council | The National Lottery Heritage Fund #HarrisMuseum #PrestonCity #ArtsAndCulture #HeritageBuilding
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