Beam building on Sunderland's Vaux site could get new tenant 'very soon'
And the green light decision came hot on the heels of last month's announcement that high-end online supermarket Ocado would be setting up a new base in the
BEAM building, on the site of the former Vaux brewery.
It's a lovely spot and the brick and
beam building, with its minstrels' gallery, looks ideal for the wedding snaps.
Although a profitable business, it didn't make much sense for the Hollingsworth family to spend millions to retrofit an old post and
beam building. With the surging Canadian dollar affecting everyone in manufacturing, the decision was made to shut down in June 2006, leaving 23 workers jobless.
The open to import segment also differentiated itself by more aggressively switching from traditional post and
beam building to new rationalized post and
beam building methods.
The Jim
Beam building, which held about 19.000 barrels of bourbon, collapsed two hours after it caught fire yesterday.
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Beam building on the Vaux site in Sunderland
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Beam Building, Storey Communications, Pownal, VT.