THE Kiln, a new building in Hoults Yard, has been developed to provide high-spec modern commercial spaces to fire the imagination of the North-East’s creative and digital sectors.

Near Newcastle’s bustling Quayside and Ouseburn, the newlylaunched commercial property strengthens Hoults Yard’s position as the jewel in the crown of the region’s growing creative industry.

Hoults Yard occupies some ten acres and over 200,000 sq ft of space. Clients signed up for The Kiln include Tom Gutteridge’s Standing Stone Productions, conference firm R&B Group, art promoters Locus+, artist Dan Holdsworth, theatre company Live Theatre, internet firms Union Room, Green Media and Urban Digger, as well as a dozen music bands, photographers and artists.

Northern Film and Media, an agency at the heart of developing the North-East’s digital arts offering, has taken up residence within the new twostorey building.

Also in situ are fashion designers Poetic Gem, IT specialists Hedgehog Labs and marketing agency OneBestway.

The team behind Hoults Yard has also launched an innovative hotdesking space, where freelancers, start-ups and solo practitioners can rent a desk for £40 per week inclusive, including broadband.

Leasing agent for the site is Sanderson Weatherall, whose director Robert Patterson said: “Hoults Yard is already home to 50 high-tech businesses and now with Northern Film and Media at the centre of them all, the sector’s upward curve will rise even faster.

“The redevelopment is geared towards the creative and media industries and the Hoults team has introduced some very innovative concepts and flexibility to meet the requirements of tenants.”

Funding has been secured to install a special highspeed internet link into the site which will allow Northern Film and Media and other occupiers with high bandwidth needs to upload and download data extremely quickly.

Charlie Hoult, managing director of Hoults Yard, said The Kiln had been redeveloped with digital businesses in mind.

Recently joining the management team, having built up an agency group in London, he said: “By its very nature, Hoults Yard has always been a creative and dynamic place.

When it was built it fired Maling pottery that was admired around the world. The new occupants are already developing work that will be seen globally. It is a very exciting place right now with over 350 people working on site, many of them world-class in music, art or design. We still have considerable scope to connect with other Newcastle Gateshead initiatives to cement the regeneration of this part of town.”

For more information contact Robert Patterson on 0191 269 0105, Simon Heydecke on 0191 269 0174 or visit www.thekiln.co.uk