A new firm will set up shop in Liverpool's highest building - a year on from the opening of the landmark site.
It was this time last year that guests were invited to mark the opening of The Spine. A £35m, 200,000 sq ft building that became the first Grade A office building to be constructed in the Liverpool City Region for more than a decade.
The Spine is the central element of Liverpool's Paddington Village development on the edge of the city centre. Paddington Village is a £1 billion science and technology hub that is hoped will boost the city's growing reputation as a life sciences and research leader.
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The Spine was designed by architecture and building consultancy practice AHR and built by city council appointed contractors and construction partners Morgan Sindall Construction. It stands more than 500ft above sea level, commanding spectacular views across the city and as far as Snowdonia, the Lake District and the Pennines.
The building is already home to the Royal College of Physicians, with the anchor tenant taking up seven floors of the building. Last year a new Pandemic Institute opened in the building and The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre has moved in on the 6th floor. Now another organisation is set to move in.
According to a Liverpool Council cabinet report, digital health and safety solutions firm EcoOnline have agreed to take on a ten-year lease for The Spine's ninth floor. The company will carry out their out fit out adhering to specific construction guidance. Floor nine is one of six vacant floors at the Spine which are being openly marketed by council’s appointed letting agents at market rent.
The council says it will also provide a right of refusal to EcoOnline for the floor below, floor eight, as they have indicated they may wish to expand their accommodation requirements at a later date.
The council's cabinet will be asked to approve plans for the authority to complete the agreements with EcoOnline relating to the ninth floor of the building. That meeting will be held next Friday.
