Day: January 15, 2025

Cuboid Offers New Launchpad for Startups: Business in a Box

Cuboid, a spin-out of leading property giant FI Real Estate Management (FIREM), has announced the pilot launch of a new product, Business in a Box, offering startups and SMEs the opportunity to have their own self-contained business unit. The Business in a Box product is a 160 sq ft two-storey container, with an office space on top, fitted out with electricity, heating, power points, lighting, windows, flooring and insulation, ready for businesses to get up and running from the off. The product aims to offer companies a more cost-effective, flexible…

Big Yellow Self Storage Plans New Site in Leicester [England]

Big Yellow Self Storage Company has lodged plans for a new facility in Leicester. The business has brought forward proposals for Belgrave Gate. The site currently accommodates a rectangular building which operates as a car workshop and MOT servicing centre. The first and second-floor elements of the structure comprise multiple different uses, including an office, a light industrial space and a Karate Hall. The northern element of the site comprises The Bridle Lane Tavern Public House and the associated garden area and car park. Lined up is the demolition of…

Pink Storage Opens New Storage Units in Stoke-on-Trent [England]

A derelict scrubland that once was used as a makeshift camp for the homeless has been transformed as part of a giant new storage facility. The notorious Yak Yak Land was cleared after being at the centre of repeated anti-social complaints. It had been set up by rough sleepers in a wooded area off North Street, Stoke, and bordering the A500. But the land is now completely unrecognisable after it was taken on by Pink Storage, which provides 60,000sqft of self-storage units to hire. As well as Yak Yak Land,…