Riverside development Trent Basin Makers Yard to focus on culture,…

Award-winning specialist developer Blueprint, has opened a new community and commercial hub on Daleside Road in Nottingham, adjoining its Trent Basin development.

The Trent Basin Makers Yard is to be a new home and incubator hub for local artists, makers and service providers with a strong focus on culture, health and wellbeing, revitalising an ex-industrial area with many underused spaces and hidden assets.

Blueprint has already purchased two key buildings on Daleside Road, Arlo House and the Pine Warehouse next door, in order to establish a core base for the project and secured its first tenants, One Thorseby Street and Bikeworks, alongside a commitment to further extend The Trent Basin Makers Yard.

Sam Veal is Chief Executive at Blueprint:

“We have seen the residents at Trent Basin establish and instil this new neighbourhood with a very strong sense of place and identity – very much with an independent energy. At Blueprint we wanted to extend this sense of place and create a new destination for the makers, and manufacturers and artists in the area, where social enterprises can be supported and nurtured, and attract those practitioners that promote health and wellbeing. The vision is to reimagine, restore and breathe new life into this ex-industrial site.”

Although the management of The Yard will be collectively organised by its tenants, the team at Blueprint will step in to support as needed and potentially look to purchase additional properties as The Yard expands. There are also plans in place to link the new hub directly to the Trent Basin development with a new pedestrian and cycle route for residents and providing direct access to the river and the historic basin inlet for visitors and those located at The Yard.

Tristan Hessing is currently director of One Thoresby Street, a not for profit community of freelance sculptors, photographers, product designers, musicians and filmmakers, based in Nottingham city centre. He states:

“I will soon be moving on from One Thoresby Street and am currently evolving a new offering at The Trent Basin Makers Yard to include a pioneering new creative collaboration and artistic fabrication base as well as an events hub for the East Midlands with national impact. I could not be more pleased to be a founding partner of this new project that has such potential for the city.”

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