Big investment
High tech facilities are on the way after a former fire station and engineering workshop are demolished at Blackpool Airport.
A council report says: “The Knowledge Quarter has been identified, due to the proximity of the TransAtlantic Aquacomms fibre cable, as an area which can be developed with a specific focus on the data, digital, technology and the energy/sustainability sectors.”. The first step would be to create a technology demonstrator facility to provide accommodation for a data centre, along with academic space and offices.
It is expected the airport administration offices would be relocated to make way for the scheme. The report adds the former fire station and engineering workshop buildings have been empty for around eight months and are ” in a poor state of repair and now considered to be in an unsafe condition.
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