Celebrating 20 years of Harlow business excellence 

We marked 20 years of Greenway Business Centre in Harlow last month. For the past two decades, our Essex centre has been a reliable space for our long-standing customers, who know that they have a hardworking group of staff and services behind them. To celebrate, we brought together our Greenway businesses and prominent Harlow locals for the celebration. 

A seed in the soil  

Just over 20 years ago, construction began on Greenway Business Centre. A particularly wet winter created muddy conditions – a significant challenge for the architect and construction crew.  

Despite these difficulties, we had a talented team on site, who persevered and firmly rooted the foundations of the Harlow branch in the soil. Slowly, the site emerged from the ground into the centre you see today.  

Watching Greenway grow 

However, whilst it was rewarding to watch the physical growth of the business centre, it has been really heart-warming to reflect on the personal and professional growth that the site has seen over the last two decades.  

Lorraine Lee, CEO of Capital Space, who – some might remember – started her journey with Greenway; joining the team as the original centre manager. She commended current centre manager Jack Caddy and his staff for maintaining a reliable and high quality set of standards for customers, and continuing the precedent she set two decades ago.  

But it’s not just the business centre that has been growing. Greenway has also had the pleasure of witnessing countless new beginnings, watching businesses sprout from their infancy and accommodating those that have outgrown their current spaces, ready to move onto the next stage of business.  

Lorraine commented: “We pride ourselves in offering flexible space, and you never fail to amaze us with the imaginative ways you make use of your space. From a physiotherapy clinic, a sewing school and even a baby scanning unit there seems no limit to the potential for growing a business at Greenway.”

Anniversary celebrations   

On 18 September, customers of the business park and of Harlow gathered to celebrate the 20 years of business successes that have occurred within the walls of Greenway, including the longest onsite customer Ecolog, who have remained in their same unit since they opened two decades ago. 

They were joined by chairman of Harlow Council, Councillor Andrew Johnson, who said he had not encountered such a diversity of businesses on one site before. He commented that the centre’s monthly licence was “incredibly useful to the local business community”. 

Founder Peter Boam said Greenway was the fifth centre to be built under the Capital Space brand, which focused on offering flexibility and certainty to its customers.

 But it wasn’t just the VIPS who got the star treatment, with an incredible grazing table put together by Fig and Feast, and a star-studded entertainment provided by TV’s own stupefying and mind-blowing magician, Andrew Kelly.

Commenting on the entertainment, Frances, of Barter Hill Partnership, said: “He was amazing! He really drew you in.”

 It was not just a celebration of business excellence. Customers banded together in support of the centre’s charity Butterfly Effect in a raffle. The charity is really important to us, as we know that in order to keep doing what you love, you need to first look after yourself and your mental health. We aim to keep on supporting such services so that we can provide businesses with the resources they need to thrive for many more years to come! 

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