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West Yorkshire £32 m warehouse acquisition

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Property developer Barwood Capital has acquired 13-acre site known as ‘Super G’ for £3.2 million at Whistler Drive, Castleford in Leeds.

It is a joint venture with the BA Pension Fund and development manager Tungsten Properties to speculatively build a 258,000 sq. ft warehouse.

Works are due to start on site in August 2018. “We have now received a detailed planning consent and look forward to delivering a high spec, state of the art warehouse for West Yorkshire,” said Barwood Capital director Ed Henson.

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