WHERE THE CORPORATE MEETS THE COOL
WHERE THE CORPORATE MEETS THE COOL
Florence Square will transform Leeds South Bank, revitalising the urban fabric and providing a new destination for the city centre.
Grade A office accommodation, a 200-room hotel and buzzing leisure amenity will sit around a new pedestrianised garden square, all a short walk from Leeds Central Station.
A MIXED-USE SCHEME WITH BIG AMBITIONS
Florence Square will bring new public realm in the form of a civic-scale central square, framed by office buildings and a hotel and populated with shops, cafés and restaurants.
THE SITE
A HERITAGE OF Innovation
Water Lane is where flax-spinning mills first appeared in the early 1790s. They were the site of the ingenuity which kick-started the industrial revolution in Leeds, when new machinery innovations allowed for mass-production.
Florence Square is inspired by Florence Bell, an unheralded scientist working in the Water Lane area almost 85 years ago. While studying the textiles trade, her discovery that DNA had a regular, ordered structure that could be studied using X-rays paved the way for the likes of Maurice Wilkins and Rosalind Franklin – and most famously Crick and Watson – to decipher DNA.
