How SME developers are unlocking regional regeneration

After nine months of gestation, the Manchester City Council and Greater Manchester Pension Fund partnership with ambitions to deliver nearly 1,600 homes is ready to be born.

Forming part of the club’s £300m Medlock Square leisure quarter, the immersive, theatrical dining experience will be housed in a three-storey venue next to the stadium.

Located at the Peel Park campus, the 20,000 sq ft Greater Manchester Institute of Technology building will be used as a central hub by colleges working with the university.

Grosvenor is bidding to make the conversion of the top two floors of the Pepper Street multi-storey car park in the city centre permanent following the venue’s “commercial success” over the last 15 months.

North East England is a region built on invention, industry and opportunity, writes Michelle Duggan of North East Combined Authority.

Big hotels, helping out, and perseverance.

Vistry has finished building 87 apartments and 17 bungalows for Anchor on four acres of the former airfield and aircraft factory in Stockport.

With Potato Wharf complete and Trinity Islands progressing, the city council is increasing its ambitions for the redevelopment of the 4.4-acre Manchester Industrial Centre, which sits between the two.

Over the course of three separate applications, Troia Restaurants has outlined its proposals to take over the former All Bar One venue and launch its third North West destination.

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Re:shape’s 386-unit Worral Street development joins CERT Property’s at Clippers Quay and Outpost’s Greengate project in the city’s pipeline.

Schemes like the stalled Pall Mall and Hemisphere at Paddington Village could benefit from cash from the combined authority, aimed at tackling “key market failures”.

The Mereside building’s atrium will benefit from an overhaul triggered by the joint venture between Bruntwood, L&G and Greater Manchester Pension Fund.

Richborough has the all-clear for 120 homes off Sandbach Road, but Nightingale Land must try again at Broad Lane, Nantwich, where there are several firms pursuing development.

Manchester City Council has appointed a joint venture between the investor and the developer to deliver 145 homes in the Manchester neighbourhood.

Ellis Williams Architects is leading the design of Cheshire West and Chester Council’s 24,300 sq ft community, library, and fitness space off Princeway.

The 124,000 sq ft Concord House in Wythenshawe, empty after the telecoms firm relocated staff to a new office in Manchester city centre, is to be demolished to pave the way for the site’s redevelopment into an industrial complex.

The affordable homes-focused partnership between Pension Insurance Corporation, Muse and Homes England has submitted proposals for 240 homes across two six-storey buildings off Academy Way.

Muse and Wythenshawe Community Housing Group have been granted permission for the first two residential projects within the £500m regeneration of the civic centre.