Skating at Granta Park, Cambridge

The Granta Park community was treated to two days of skating last week. The 2000-strong scientific community and their families were invited to take advantage of free skating provided by the MEPC management team.

“As Granta Park is a science park community it is important to host events every once in a while to bring people together and as a management team we thought skating would appeal to a wide range of people. The science park is a picturesque place and looks particularly pretty with the low winter sun across the cricket pitch or at night with a few lights and a large expanse of starry sky.” said Roz Bird Granta Park Marketing Manager

Children from Great Abington Primary School were invited to join the fun on both days. “The children all had a fabulous time and many of the parents commented on what a great opportunity it was for them to try a new activity.” Said Ms Deborah Nicholas Assistant Headteacher Great Abington Primary School.

As the event was free, skaters were asked to make a donation to one of two charities; CAMPOD in aid of specialist equipment for the Cambridge University Department of Pathology and The Wallace Foundation in aid of cancer care.

Granta Park hosts successful agency gathering

Granta Park hosted a successful breakfast event for the agent community on Friday.

Representatives from all the main property agencies in the area met together early Friday morning for a tour of the 130 acre science park which includes the new Granta Park Phase II site offering 330,000 sq ft of outline consent and the 68,000 sq ft Riverside Development due for completion December 19.

The park tour was followed by a full English breakfast and a prize draw. Roz Bird, Granta Park Marketing Manager commented, “It was great to see such a good turn out at the event even though it was an early start. As a newcomer to the local property scene I was glad to have the opportunity to meet everyone and am looking forward to working with them all in the coming months as Granta Park meets the continuing demand for high-quality space in Cambridge.

New 100,000 sq ft Building Launched at Granta Park

MEPC Granta Park, one of the UK’s leading science parks, today saw the launch of a newly refitted research and development facility that has been taken by MedImmune, AstraZeneca’s global biologics unit.

The development of 100,000 sq ft was named after and officially opened by Sir Aaron Klug, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1982 and whose scientific work has contributed to the company’s success.

MedImmune, which employs almost 400 staff at its Cambridge site, is the largest customer in the MEPC portfolio of eight business and science parks. Since moving to the park in 2001 as Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) the company now known as MedImmune has grown nine fold, now occupying 180,000 sq ft.

Rick de Blaby, chief executive of MEPC, comments: “We have always remained committed to Cambridge and the needs of this specialist community. With developments in the pipeline, including our 68,000 sq ft Riverside Scheme, which is progressing ahead of schedule, and the 40,000 sq ft pre-let for PPD, we perceive continued demand for space in this area.”

John Granger, Managing Director of Granta Park adds: “We are delighted that MedImmune has decided to reinforce its presence at Granta Park by taking a lease of the 100,000 square feet Aaron Klug Building, recognising the advantages of being at the heart of the South Cambridge Technology cluster, in a high-quality environment, future-proofed for expansion.

When Cambridge Antibody Technology (CAT) took the lease of a single 20,000 square foot laboratory building at Granta Park soon after the start of the new Millennium, no one could have foreseen that eight years later, transformed into MedImmune, it would occupy three buildings with a total floor area of over 180,000 square feet.”

Granta Park, Cambridge is the gold standard in science park design and development. Opened in 1998, the Park is home to leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies

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New Offices To LET in Cambridge

An exciting new office building development for Granta Park, Cambridge.

Below, architectural visualisations of the new scheme.