Kier/Invista dial up 153,000 sq ft Yell Reading HQ

                      Kier Property and Invista Real Estate Investment Management have completed their letting of 153,000 sq ft of offices at their One Reading Central development in Reading, Berkshire to Yell, the international directories business.    Yell will take the space over eight storeys of the 216,000 sq ft building, the first of three comprising 600,000 sq ft to be developed by the joint venture close to the town’s main rail station.   Around 1,350 Yell employees are scheduled to move into One Reading Central in summer 2010.   The are relocating from two existing Reading town centre offices – a six-storey property in Queens Walk where it has been based for more than 20 years and two floors at Bridge Street Plaza.   Around 50 employees currently based at Yell premises in Slough, Berkshire, and who have head office supporting jobs will also relocate to One Reading Central.   John Condron, chief executive of Yell, said: “Yell has seen tremendous growth and development in recent years and the opportunity to relocate our UK head office teams to one building will enable us to build on this for the future and gives us the opportunity to enhance team working and communication.   Invista and Kier’s agents on the Reading Central scheme are LSH and DTZ. Yell was represented by LSH.     paul.norman@rbi.co.uk