Work has started to build a new 500 seat entertainment and hospitality venue at the heart of Stoke’s historic Spode site.
Daily Focus can exclusively reveal that the Warehouse @ Potbank, complete with stage for performers, a dance floor and seating space for hundreds, will be open later this year.
It joins the sold-out Quarter and Factory Floor facilities, which already bring hundreds of visitors to the site every week.
The £4.2 million project is jointly funded by developers and the Levelling Up fund administered by Stoke-on-Trent City Council.
And it follows news this week that two new planning applications have been submitted – by Spode Regeneration Limited and Capital & Centric – to bring offices, a state-of-the-art recording studio, museum space, new hospitality facilities and even padel courts to the thriving site.
Work is also underway on a privately-funded £20 million AI data centre, which not only brings the world’s highest tech to Spode, but will also sit at the heart of a sustainable energy network which will use heat generated by the servers to warm the whole of the Spode site, including future developments, and possibly other key buildings in Stoke town.
Ash Booth, director of Spode Regeneration Limited, said the new venue would be open in autumn in time for the Christmas rush season.
He said: “The Quarter and Factory Floor are phenomenally successful and have put the. Spode site and Stoke Town on the hospitality map.
“Dining at the site is often fully-booked, and concert and party nights sell out too, so it makes sense to expand the offer.
“And as with all our developments at the. Spode site, tenants will be in the facility and working as soon as then paint is dry, continuing our record of 100 per cent occupancy.”
- £24m plans for elsewhere on the Spode site include a data centre, conference space and upgrades to its biomass heating system. Find out more here.
