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18 | Tees Business Wilton Centre offers excellent facilities in the perfect location Wilton Centre’s reputation as a world-leading business and science park makes it the location of choice for many businesses. O ver 60 companies, ranging from multinationals through to SMEs and start-ups, are located at the centre and levels of interest in the range of high quality office and technical space available continue to be high. High demand for space Lettings figures for 2014 at the 75 acre site, located between Middlesbrough and Redcar, were double those of 2013 and total occupancy is now running at 70%. The surge to take up space is set against a background of significant investment in creating excellent facilities for tenants based at the centre. In the past 18 months alone the Wilton Centre has revamped and refurbished its Lakeside restaurant and coffee shop, launched a state-of-the art gym with its own beauty salon for tenant employees and created a suite of high quality conference and meeting rooms. Excellent facilities and location Site director Steve Duffield said that the improvements have added significantly to the attraction of the centre as a location for business office space as well as its reputation as a world-class business environment. “Location is crucial to businesses, both in terms of accessibility as well as the surrounding business community. “We are able to offer an ideally positioned setting close to all major transport networks together with a large network of businesses for tenants to build links with and potentially form long-term business partnerships.” Exceptional support for tenants Since April 2015, tenants at the centre have also benefited from a revitalised support network after it became part of the national faci ]Y\