ARCHITECT and TV presenter George Clarke praised sustainable developer Citu’s Greenhouse development in Leeds during an event at the venue.
Greenhouse in Beeston, a low carbon development, was chosen by the event’s organisers, The Social Business Brokers, and Channel 4, who were there to film for George’s new series of The Great British Property Scandal.
Born out of 1930s Shaftesbury House, the building was earmarked for demolition before Citu took it on.
Citu director Chris Thompson said: “One of the great challenges with Greenhouse was the transformation of Shaftesbury House and the commitment it took to breathe new life into a building that had been left to rack and ruin for 10 years. The social problems that had become ingrained into the building seemed to be what people wanted to eradicate and knocking the building down was the default answer. Instead, we saw this as a fantastic opportunity to take a building that was structurally sound, and do something quite different with it.”
Mr Clarke said: “This is fabulous – a developer has come in and taken on an old derelict building.”
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