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Tarmac set to move to Wolverhampton, bringing 100 jobs

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Tarmac will be moving into Wolverhampton's landmark i10 development – bringing 100 staff to the site.

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Tarmac's Building Products division has become the latest business to sign up as a tenant of the £10.6 million city centre development.

Part of Tarmac, the UK's leading building materials and construction solutions business, it will be occupying the 11,000 sq ft first floor of the block.

It means all three floors of top grade office space in i10 have been fully let in just six months of the building being completed.

It will employ around 100 staff at the site and will join worldwide expert in water treatment, Ovivo, and award-winning home builder and regeneration specialist, Countryside, as commercial office tenants at i10.

Managing director, Mark Joel, said: "The modern i10 facility is a great location for Tarmac's Building Products divisional headquarters and offers a modern office environment.

"It has excellent public transport links for employees, as well as good connections to Tarmac's corporate HQ near Birmingham International station."

Wolverhampton's city economy boss, Councillor John Reynolds, added: "It is great news for Wolverhampton that Tarmac's Building Products business has opted to stay in the city.

"To have fully let the commercial office space at i10 so quickly shows the strong demand for quality office space in the city. The i10 has raised the bar for the provision of top grade office space in the city."

Greene King, Superdrug and Kaspa's Desserts have already filled four of the six ground floor retail units. A training centre for school-leavers will build its new premises on the site of the old Tarmac headquarters.

The Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre opened in September at a temporary home at the former Timken aerospace factory in Upper Villiers Street.

Plans have since been unveiled to relocate into a purpose-built site at the former Tarmac headquarters.

The Wolverhampton Vocational Training Centre is currently the only free school in the country which provides bespoke training courses for people between the ages of 16-18, with special needs.

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