You may have seen all the roadworks on Queen Street Bridge over the last few weeks and thought things couldn’t possibly any busier (or more annoying), but this is just the beginning of much grander redevelopment plans that will see the station area completely transformed.
Network Rail have signed a deal that will see over £1 billion invested, 2,500 houses built — 20% of which will be “affordable”— and up to a million square feet of office, retail and hospitality space, made available at the back of the station.
York Central will include a new 17-acre urban park that will connect the new development to the surrounding neighbourhoods and the city centre.
Overall at 45-hectares by the time work starts it will be one of the biggest city-centre brownfield redevelopment projects in the whole country!
Robin Dobson, group property director at Network Rail, called the wider project “a hugely important scheme” and “a major step forward” for the city.
Network Rail expect the new developments to create up to 6,500 new jobs which will grow the city’s economy by 20%.
Read more about update sto the project as they happen at www.networkrail.co.uk/industry-and-commercial/network-rail-property/
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