The site, which hosted the last British Garden Festival, was acquired by Mercia Real Estate in 2021
Festival Park in Ebbw Vale.
The newly-created Festival Park in Ebbw Vale has been boosted with five lettings. Owners, Birmingham-based Mercia Real Estate, have transformed the former retail park site, following its acquisition in 2021 to create 24 industrial units totalling 84,202 sq ft for local and national businesses and logistic operators,
The 70 acre site hosted the last British Garden Festival in 1992.
The 24 units range in size from 958 sq ft to 8,504 sq ft and support a range of business uses including light industrial, trade counter and storage units.
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Water Treatment Products Ltd (WTP) has signed a three year lease on the 8,478 sq ft Unit 10 – the largest unit on the estate. WTP is one of the premier water treatment chemical manufacturers in the UK.
Steve Jones, managing director, said: “Water Treatment Products employs 55 people at our manufacturing premises based in Blaenavon. The new Festival Park site gives us extra much-needed storage space and will allow the company to be more efficient and responsive to customers with its good links to the newly-completed Heads of the Valleys road network.”
Start up sheet metal fabricator Gwent Profiles has taken a five year lease on unit 20. Director Adam Rees said “We aim to supply industrial roofing products across South Wales, the south west of England, and eventually the whole of the UK.
“Having lived in the Blaenau Gwent area our entire lives, it was important that we secured premises in this area, the potential to create much needed opportunities in the area being one of our main objectives and driving force in our decision making. Growing up, the Festival Park site had always been a thriving hub in our community and we are keen to help to restore it. The units themselves had been completed to good standards and we look forward to working in a bright and clean environment.”
Local coach and minibus operator Blowers Travel Services has signed a 10 year lease on the 7,546 sq ft Unit 18.
At Unit 15, MHDA CIC, a not-for-profit dance and performing arts company established in 2003, has signed a five year lease
Florence Craft, owner and artistic director, said: “We provide high-quality training to children from age one through to adults. Securing our own dedicated premises at Festival Park marks a major milestone and the realisation of a long-held ambition for the organisation.
“Finding a space suitable for a dance academy is extremely rare and this unit stood out for its size, beautiful presentation, parking and peaceful setting.”
The existing site was chosen as the last British Garden Festival site in 1992 on what was site for the former the British Steel steel and tin works, which had been partly demolished in the early 1980s. The National Garden Festival ran from May until October 1992 and attracted over two million people.