Orbit Business Centre Project Name: Orbit Business Centre
Location: Rhydycar, Merthyr Tydfil
Project status: Underway
Target Start Date: October 2007
Target End Date: November 2008
Project managed by: Merthyr Tydfil CBC
Contractor: Wilmott Dixon Turner
Partners: Objective1, LRF, DE&T (WAG)
Funded by: Objective1, LRF, DE&T (WAG)
Features of the development:
- To encourage, inspire and support new and emerging businesses from Wales and elsewhere, with office space available for start-up businesses or existing businesses wishing to develop innovative new products or services
- Training and development for business owners and company employees
- A dedicated ICT training suite
- An effective hub of business support
- Networking opportunities for businesses within and outside the Borough
- Anchor tenant unit(s)
- State-of-the-art Conference Facilities
- Meeting Rooms
The Orbit Business Centre is a £5.5 million state-of-the-art facility, incorporating start-up offices, business support, training centre and anchor tenant unit(s). The ultimate aim of the project is to contribute to increased wealth creation (and retention) within the County Borough of Merthyr Tydfil through stimulating and enabling the growth of higher GVA businesses.
The vibrant and competitive culture created within Orbit Business Centre will result in the development of innovative, high growth businesses leading to real economic benefits to the Borough of Merthyr Tydfil.
The highlight of this new Centre is on-site business support, providing the ideal environment for business owners to concentrate on developing their business to achieve and surpass their goals and identified targets.
Orbit Business Centre is ideally located in a prime position, just behind the Welsh Assembly Government building and opposite the new leisure complex currently being developed to provide a leisure centre, nine screen cinema, hotel, pubs, restaurants and cafés.
It has excellent road links, being alongside the A470, having good access to the M4 and a mere 30 minutes away from Cardiff! It is also near the improved A465 Heads of the Valleys Road – a major artery to the Midlands and West Wales.
This project is a joint venture between Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council and the Department for the Economy & Transport (DE&T) of the Welsh Assembly Government, and is being funded by Objective 1 European Regional Development Funds, DE&T, the Local Regeneration Fund, Heads of the Valley (HoV) and Merthyr Tydfil CBC.
Enquiries about this project should be directed to:
Sharon Doherty, Business Development Manager
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