Half a million pounds will be spent to resurrect five derelict railway arches in Windsor.
The Arch Company, which is the largest landlord of small businesses in the country, is investing £500m to transform the empty business units off Alma Road by Windsor and Eton Central station.
The plans for units 25-26, 27-28, 29-30, 55, and 57 are part of the company’s ‘Project 1000’, which aims to bring a thousand empty and derelict spaces into use by 2030.
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Across the country it hopes to create space for 1,000 businesses, supporting approximately 5,000 jobs and adding to the estimated 25,000 people already employed in arch businesses.
The Arch Company purchased 5,200 rental spaces from Network Rail in 2019. It became responsible for 74 arches in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead since then, with the majority occupied by small independent businesses.
The Windsor arches units will be transformed into useful spaces for businesses and create up to 25 new jobs. The works will be completed by the end of this…
