Achilleas Kallakis’s Pacific Group will begin work shortly on a 250,000 sq ft office complex in the centre of Crawley,
Pacific, the
Pacific bought the site, which includes the 114,895 sq ft
The trust subsequently enlisted Jones Lang LaSalle and architect Harding, Neill & Watson to work up plans to more than double the complex by building on the adjacent car park and encompassing the adjoining White House office scheme.
The proposals comprise three offices – one of eight and two of six storeys – and will see the White House and the single-storey north wing of
Vanessa Clark, a director in Jones Lang LaSalle’s
“Despite challenging market conditions, it is anticipated that the decked car park and the first office building will be commenced speculatively, acknowledging the very real gap in supply in the Crawley office market and underlining the owner’s appetite for speculative development.
“The proposed scheme has been designed sympathetically and will include water and soft landscape features as well as expansion of the existing on-site café.”
Kallakis’ Pacific Group is working up proposals for a series of major developments in
Later this year it will lodge plans to replace the 1970s-built Apollo House and Lunar House buildings in Croydon with a 3.3m sq ft scheme, including a 59-storey residential skyscraper.
It is also working up plans for a makeover of
