Tees Valley unveils its own creative quarter

Creative renaissance in the Tees Valley has officially arrived following the unveiling of a landmark building.

It is one of the first three buildings that will form the core of the Boho Zone in Middlesbrough - the £10m Boho One, its digital enterprise centre.

Teesside University campus The Boho Zone is the headquarters of the project’s business driver, DigitalCity Business, and complements the wider DigitalCity initiative which boasts the Institute of Digital Innovation and the Centre for Creative Technologies – a £21m development on Teesside University’s campus.

It signals a new phase in the region’s answer to the creative quarters of New York and London.

One North East, which invested over £7m in the building, has also revealed the building is already 70% pre-let to the target industries.

The aim is to house 27 high value businesses and create 283 jobs whilst supporting the regeneration of a key site between Middlesbrough Town Centre and Middlehaven.

Work is now focused on developing the next generation of digital and media students and transferring academic innovation into business creation, which DigitalCity Business then takes forward in the commercial sphere.

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