New plans to refurbish part of the Hammonds of Hull building have been announced.
The city centre department store was closed in 2019, with call centre firm ResQ taking over part of that site and an artisan food hall opening on the ground floor that closed in 2023.
Now Hull-baed Yorkshire Maintenance Company has revealed it is working on expanding ResQ’s offices on the first and second floors of the building into the third and fourth in a £4.2m development. ResQ moved into the first floor of the Hammonds of Hull building in 2021 before expanding into the 2nd floor in 2023. This next expansion will see them double their space in the building to four floors.
Around £315,000 of the project’s cost has been set aside by the Levelling Up Fund. The rest of the funding has been secured privately with £2.3m coming from ResQ itself and another £1.9m coming from the building’s landlord, Mansur Alabrah, a Saudi Arabian national who owns Redefine Paragon Square Hull Ltd.
Meanwhile, no further updates have been made on the proposed Lane 7 entertainment development on the ground floor of the Hammonds of Hull building after a licence for a bowling alley and adult games bar was granted earlier this year.
Lane 7, which runs adult-oriented bowling alleys in cities across the UK such as London, Manchester, and Liverpool, has been contacted for comment.
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