Birchwood Park MD named Warrington Business Person of the Year

MEPC Birchwood Park managing director, Jonathan Walsh, has been named Business Person of the Year at the Warrington Business Awards.

Jonathan joined Birchwood Park 8 years ago and during this time, the 123 acre business park has grown to accommodate over 145 companies, including Sony Ericsson, Atkins, Serco and AMEC and a workforce of over 4,200, a figure which Jonathan hopes to bring to 7,500 in the next five years.

Since becoming Managing Director MEPC Birchwood Park has scored Warrington’s largest deal, and accounts for approximately half the deals in the area (Warrington Annual Property Review, 2008).

The award-winning grade A 250,000 sq ft Bridgewater Place has enabled MEPC Birchwood Park to match the increasing quality of city centre office stock. In the last 9 months, over 50,000 sq ft of space has been let it and now counts organisations such as the Department of Work and Pensions, GB Oils and David Wilson Homes among its occupiers, along with recent arrival, cash processing management firm, Vaultex UK.

Widely acknowledged as Warrington’s commercial hub, MEPC Birchwood Park recently announced the imminent launch of a 103 bedroom Ramada Encore hotel, which will further raise its competitiveness in the North West commercial property market as it becomes the first park in the MEPC group and one of the first few in the country to feature a hotel.

Said Jonthan at the awards ceremony: "I was particularly proud that my father Paul was with me at the awards dinner. He is the man who inspired me from a very early age to do what I now do and gave me the understanding that having a passion for what you do is a prerequisite to doing it well. Invariably when an individual wins a business award there is an unseen team of people stood behind the recipient without whom there would be no story to tell. At Birchwood Park we have over 50 such people who day in day out have made the park what it now is."

"I accept this award on behalf of the Birchwood Park team, who share my pride in what we have achieved and my vision of what we can achieve in the future."

Image courtesey of the Warrington Guardian newspaper