The building that used to house Ashton Old Baths has undergone a radical transformation and is now a business hub offering a range of high-tech facilities. It has been designed to help nurture start-ups in the area and Forms a phase of a wider project costing millions of pounds.
Having been constructed back in 1870, the Italianate-style building closed its doors during the mid-1970s and has remained derelict since then. According to Tameside Council, the revamp concentrated on the interiors, due to its status as a listed building.
Located on Henry Square in Ashton-under-Lyne, the former main swimming hall now offers premises equipped for companies within the media, creative and digital sectors.
Kieran Quinn, Tameside Council leader, told BBC News:
“We’re in a building inside a building. We had to come up with a really innovative way to create our digital media hub.”
The Heritage Lottery Fund provided a grant of £1.7m, while the European Regional Development Fund supplied a further £1m to enable the work of refurbishing the building to take place.
Companies based within cutting-edge business hubs such as this one can always rely on places that offer digital copying and other modern services.
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