The £8.2m regeneration project has seen the town’s historic former bus station transformed into Cumbria’s flagship digital and creative hub, where business start-ups and entrepreneurs can meet, innovate, and grow.
The project was co-designed with Britain’s Energy Coast (BEC) with funding from Sellafield Ltd and the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and in partnership with Copeland Borough Council.
Sellafield Ltd provided £5.7m to the project under our social impact, multiplied (SiX) programme of community investments, which works to leverage public and private sector investment to help diversify and grow the local economy.
At the centre of the development is a Barclays Eagle Lab, one of only 25 Labs nationwide and the first to be built outside of a major city in the North.
Once a disused and derelict shell, the building is now a dynamic collaboration environment…
