With a vision for a dynamic commercial, educational, cultural, leisure and lifestyle quarter where people can live, work, learn and play, the HALO Kilmarnock provides a sustainable community approach to a mixed-use development, powered by electricity with a net zero carbon footprint.
Completed in April 2021, and formally opened in April 2022, the HALO Enterprise and Innovation Centre creates an entrepreneurial ecosystem designed to stimulate innovative business practices between new and established businesses.
New business and employment opportunities focus on delivering ‘workforces of the future’ by offering training in digital skills with key partners. This ecosystem encourages the development of new digital and cyber security products and services, responding to the needs of the energy, health, and space and aerospace sectors.
For updates on HALO, please visit the website: Home – Halo | Digital, Cyber and Innovation Park | Kilmarnock | Scotland
The HALO Kilmarnock is a £63m brownfield urban regeneration project on a 23-acre site, formerly the home of Johnnie Walker, the world’s leading Scotch whisky.
With a vision for a dynamic commercial, educational, cultural, leisure and lifestyle quarter where people can ‘Live, Work, Learn and Play’, the HALO will provide a sustainable community approach to a mixed-use development powered by electricity with a net zero carbon footprint.
Through the HALO Enterprise and Innovation Centre, set to open in spring 2021, we will collaborate with our partner Scottish Power to create an industry leading cyber and digital training and learning facility, establishing the HALO at the forefront of the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”.
The HALO is working with some of the UK’s most successful PLCs, global businesses, entrepreneurs, and local SMEs to drive a new economy by creating a new Cyber and Digital economy.
This project will receive total funding of £11 million:
• £3.5 million from UK Government;
• £3.5 million from Scottish Government;
• £2 million from East Ayrshire Council;
• £2 million from Diageo.
