{"id":25098,"date":"2021-03-26T15:26:39","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.machinery.world\/?p=25098"},"modified":"2021-03-26T15:26:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T15:26:39","slug":"work-begins-on-3-6-million-travelodge-at-cobalt-business-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/work-begins-on-3-6-million-travelodge-at-cobalt-business-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Begins on \u00a33.6 million Travelodge at Cobalt Business Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Construction work on a new 80-room Travelodge at Cobalt Business Park in North Tyneside has commenced.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a33.6m development of the former Cobalt 3.3 site, which housed office accommodation in Silver Fox Way, is being delivered by Esh Construction on behalf of Union Property Development Ltd<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two-storey office accommodation will be re-modelled into 68 rooms while an adjoining lightweight steel frame extension will provide an additional 12 rooms. A bar caf\u00e9 and reception will feature on the ground floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Travelodge spokeswoman Shakila Ahmed said: \u201cWe are delighted to be working with Union Property and Esh on a further Travelodge hotel development which is located in the UK\u2019s biggest business park, Cobalt Business Park. This is our seventh hotel in Newcastle, and it will also be the first budget hotel to be located at the business park; providing much needed great value accommodation to visiting business and leisure travellers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25099\" src=\"http:\/\/www.machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-2.jpg 945w, https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-2-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-2-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The location boasts transport links to the A19 for business travellers and is ideally situated for leisure travellers given its proximity to coastal towns Whitley Bay and Tynemouth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Newcastle-based developer Union Property has brought the \u00a33.6 million project to fruition. Peter Carruthers, Consultant Project Director at Union Property, said: \u201cWith construction rebounding from lockdown restrictions, we have several projects underway and are as committed as ever to delivering our development pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe building is currently under-used and its conversion to a hotel will provide much needed additional hotel capacity to Cobalt Business Park and the wider area. This is our third development for Travelodge, and we are especially pleased to appoint Esh Construction to work with us once again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25101\" src=\"http:\/\/www.machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"945\" height=\"631\" srcset=\"https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-1.jpg 945w, https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/machinery.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/p-1-600x401.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Esh Construction was appointed as the design and build contractor in November 2020 and will work in partnership with Wake Morley, Portland Consulting Engineers and kyoob to deliver the project. Gary Dobson, Divisional Director at Esh Construction, said: \u201cThis is our second development on behalf of Union Property, with our commercial build division recently commencing work on a \u00a310 million retail scheme based at the entrance to Hexham.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew developments like Cobalt &#8211; the jobs it will create and the boost to the local economy during the build and on completion &#8211; will play a key part in the region\u2019s recovery from the pandemic. We look forward to working with Union Property and the project team to bring this underused building back to use.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Work on the Cobalt development is expected to complete late 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Travelodge is working with Union Property and Esh Construction on a 69-room hotel with an on-site restaurant called the Bar Caf\u00e9 at Hexham in Northumberland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about Esh Construction, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eshgroup.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.eshgroup.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction work on a new 80-room Travelodge at Cobalt Business Park in North Tyneside has commenced. &nbsp; The \u00a33.6m development of the former Cobalt 3.3 site, which housed office accommodation in Silver Fox Way, is being delivered by Esh Construction&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/2021\/03\/26\/work-begins-on-3-6-million-travelodge-at-cobalt-business-park\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25102,"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25098\/revisions\/25102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/machinery.world\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}