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138-140 Nathan Way is a light industrial warehouse in London SE28.

2021 March - Estate agent KALMARs brings the light industrial warehouse at 138-40 Nathan Way to the market for £6,000,000. The property comprises a self-contained purpose-built warehouse of masonry construction flanked by metal casing with a glass roof supported by steel beams. It is accessible via two full-length roller shutters at both ends of the unit and benefits from three-phase power throughout. The 36,669 sq ft property was formerly the workshop and headquarters of Helix 3D, a design company that used it for large scale production for film, TV, and PR events. KALMARs’ acquisition of Nathan Way follows on from their successful leasing of a warehouse in Bermondsey to Forest Road Brewing Co. in August 2020.

The warehouse is located within West Thamesmead Business Park within the Councils Defined Industrial Area in the Greenwich Development plan and is about 1 mile from Woolwich town centre.

Helix 3D once constructed a remarkable revolving set for an advert for the coffee brand Senseo here, which was filmed live-action with a rotating rig cantilevered out by two metres on either side of the revolve using stunt performers on wires. The warehouse was also a set for the new BBC documentary Jack Whitehall’s Sporting Nation and the hit 2011 comedy horror film Attack the Block, which was Star Wars star John Boyega’s first major role.

The impressive acquisition of Nathan Way demonstrates the scope of KALMARs’ South expansion into the industrial real estate sector. The £2.7m lettings deal with UK-based Forest Brewing Co. was an early indication of their ambition and brought another beer company to Bermondsey, an area now recognised as ‘London’s beer district.’ Woolwich has a different manufacturing history, with strong historic links to military technology. It is home to the Royal Arsenal, which employed almost 80,000 people during the First World War.

In 1886 fifteen munitions workers from the area formed a local football team which has since relocated to North London but retained the Woolwich connection in its name - Arsenal F.C.