The occupiers, Handelsbanken, Regus, Verisona Law, EBP South and Astute Technical Recruitment, were the first to sign up for space in 2008, and have remained on Campus ever since. Since moving onto Lakeside North Harbour Versiona Law and Astute have also doubled in size, supporting the fact that the Campus offers an ideal platform on which to build business success.
Sue Ball of Verisona Law, comments: “We bought a vision of what Lakeside could be. Back in 2008 none of the facilities like shops and cafés existed, they were merely a promise of brighter things to come. We had our merger/office launch party in the Atrium and invited 400 guests because we could – there were genuinely very few other occupiers to disturb! The people at the party were looking at us wondering if we knew something they didn’t, because there we were investing in this massive space within a largely empty building whilst all around us was the doom and gloom of global recession. Ten years on, I am personally very proud to work here and feel we have the space, opportunity and support to continue to grow.”