The brand new Treadmills development, also home to C4DI Northallerton, is soon to benefit from a micro university focusing on digital learning opportunities.
C4DI Northallerton is an exciting new campus, helping tech companies grow and traditional businesses innovate within the agriculture and food processing sectors.
The new eCampus will be situated in the former Staff Tenement Block opposite C4DI and will serve as an enhancement to the Digital Hub.
It’s one of 10 projects enjoying some of the £15.4 million funding from the Government’s Getting Building Fund, secured by York & North Yorkshire Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) in June.
The goal is to transform a historic building in the town centre and repurpose it as an eCampus that provides the local community with access to a wide range of learning opportunities. There will be a focus on digital subjects to provide a pipeline of local skilled people for the hub, which is not currently provided in the district.
A new computer-generated image of the Treadmills scheme showing accommodation for the C4DI tech community as well as restaurants and cafés around a showpiece civic square. Image: Vector Design Concepts.
“The LEP has a vision for economic recovery from COVID-19, which highlights a greener, fairer, stronger, future for York & North Yorkshire. These 10 schemes reflect those values and also offer resilience for our region’s infrastructure, rejuvenation for town and city centres, fresh learning and skills provision and new business and job opportunities – particularly in areas which depend on tourism. We’re delighted to have been able to secure funding to help them progress,” David Dickson, Chair of the York & North Yorkshire LEP Infrastructure and Joint Assets Board.
Here at C4DI Hull, we can’t wait to see C4DI Northallerton and the new eCampus open its doors.
“We could not possibly be more delighted with the interest, support and enthusiasm that we have received from Hambleton District Council, LEP and now Universities and Colleges. This next step in the development of the C4DI Treadmills Campus in Northallerton looks set to accelerate our growth beyond anything that we have experienced in the past. It is entirely appropriate that we recognise their remarkable insights into the overall value of the C4DI to their entire community,” says David Keel, Chair of C4DI Hull.
To find out more about the project, please visit http://www.c4di.co.uk/northallerton. In the meantime, check out this video of the current development.