The biggest office ever created on Tyneside – with room for 9,000 workers – is taking shape in the heart of Newcastle, a new bird’s eye image of the site reveals.
HMRC announced in November 2021 that Pilgrim’s Quarter, part of the Pilgrim Street development, would become a Government hub and the new home for HM Revenue and Customs in the North East. As well as being the largest office in Newcastle, the building will be the largest of HMRC’s 14 regional centres at 463,000 sq ft, providing office accommodation for approximately 9,000 HMRC staff.
Visitors to the city centre can now see real signs of progress on the construction of the complex, based in the northern block of the Pilgrim Street regeneration project. Demolition and enabling works started in late 2021 and a ground-breaking ceremony in June 2022 marked the start of the new building works. A new building core is rising above the city skyline, while a second core is also complete to ground level, along with new retaining walls marking the Pilgrim Street frontage.
