Aviva closes in on Spring Gardens office

The first phase of construction of Liverpool’s new Cruise Liner Terminal has begun, with the arrival in the River Mersey of an overwater jack-up platform to begin site investigations on the bedrock on which much of the new facility will be built.

The updated strategic regeneration framework for Manchester’s Renaissance hotel complex on Deansgate is to go before the city council’s executive with a recommendation for approval next week.

A £100m thermal and hydraulic testing facility could form a future phase of M-Sparc, the science and business park on the Isle of Anglesey, which already has outline planning consent for seven additional buildings.

A special event held by Place North West in partnership with the Anglesey Enterprise Zone Board has revealed multi-billion-pound investment opportunities in Anglesey, including in nuclear power, industrial space, science parks, leisure, and more.

Yorkshire-headquartered building firm Triton has acquired Liverpool-based Remstone Construction as it continues its bid to expand in the North West.

Liverpool City Council is to buy the shopping centre above Central railway station from Aviva as it seeks to accelerate regeneration schemes including Augur’s neighbouring Circus project.

The former Ritz cinema site, once destined for a hotel development, is to be marketed for sale by Stockport Council for residential development.

Represented by Avison Young, London-based real estate investment company Cervidae has bought the 54,000 sq ft One Didsbury Point office for £11m from Titanium Real Estate.