Prominent Leeds city centre property set for £6.5m 2020 opening

The transformation of 34 Boar Lane in Leeds city centre is to be completed this month.

The building will be turned into a creative office, leisure and retail space. Kinrise - the property’s owner - is set to reveal several new lettings following the £6.5m renovation of the building.

The development, which comprises the next new Grade A office space set to come to the Leeds market this year, is ready for immediate occupation.

The 57,000 sq ft building is located adjacent to Leeds’ railway station and has 46,000 sq ft of office space over five floors. 34 Boar Lane is used as a workspace with single desks for entrepreneurs and freelancers, plus studios for teams and full floors for larger, global firms.

The first letting of the year at 34 Boar Lane is to Mowgli, which specialises in street food, and is scheduled to open this March.

Mowgli is taking 3,000 sq ft of prime retail space on the ground floor of the building. The restaurant chain is based in Sheffield and was founded by Nisha Katon MBE.

Eamon Fox, partner and head of office agency at global property consultancy Knight Frank, in Leeds, which is marketing 34 Boar Lane, said: “We are delighted to welcome Mowgli to 34 Boar Lane.

“This letting, to a highly-respected and original restaurant chain, underlines what we are trying to achieve here. We are choosing our occupiers very carefully.

“The spirit and ethos of 34 Boar Lane is crucial. For example, we could have let the restaurant units to famous high street operators, but we want to create a strong, independent and groundbreaking culture here.”

“We are ready to announce two significant office lettings at 34 Boar Lane in the very near future, so please watch this space.”

Nisha Katona MBE, Mowgli’s founder, added: “I’m so excited to announce Mowgli Leeds is moving into a beautiful glass-fronted building on a busy and very ‘Mowgli’ street.

“Leeds is a city I have hankered after for the last four years. I had to find exactly the right place and exactly the right building and it took this long.”