RSS Feed?5.8 Million Record Order Secured
The Gelder Group?s Major Contracts Division are pleased to announce the securing of their largest order to date, a ?5.8 million, 104 week re-development of the Birchwood Shopping Centre, Lincoln for the Lincolnshire Co-operative Society.
Works are due to commence on site in January 2009 and will involve the demolition of a proportion of the existing retail space, construction of new retail space, health units, first floor office space, food units and residential apartments along with alterations and re-modelling of the retained units and Co-op Food Store.
The contract is the largest building project ever undertaken by the Lincolnshire Co-operative Society and will also involve modifications to the existing car park and a new site entrance.
Gelder Group Managing Director, Steve Gelder, commented ?I am truly delighted that Ursula Lidbetter (Lincoln Co-op Chief Executive) and her team have put their trust in a local company to deliver this project? adding that ?The Gelder Group?s forward order book now tops ?20 million for the first time, giving the Group stability during a time of great financial uncertainty?.
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Pictured Steve Gelder and Ursula Lidbetter sign the ?5.8 contract
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From left to right: Councillor Eddie Strengiel, Gelder Group?s Major Contracts Director Kevin Manterfield, Tenant from the Birchwood Access and Training Centre Lorraine Palmer, Councillor Jane Clark, Gelder Group?s Managing Director Steve Gelder Hodgson Elkington Partner Dan Race, Tenant Lyn Hall from Hair By Ann Salon, Brundell Woolley Partner Richard Woolley, Lincolnshire Co-operative?s Chief Executive Officer Ursula Lidbetter and Architect Brian Wright from Brian E Wright Architects.
View this story in the Lincolnshire Echo on 20th October 2008 see link below:
