Aecom in talks over top floor at 100 Embankment
Salford City Council is due to sign off a 20,000 sq ft letting at the £40m building next week, with the global engineering practice in discussions over the space.
A spokesperson for Aecom confirmed the company’s interest in 100 Embankment, adding that a lease has “not yet been signed”.
Last year, Aecom completed similar-sized lettings in Glasgow and St Albans. The company’s current Manchester office is at 1 New York Street.
Salford City Council will meet next Monday to approve a deal that will see the building’s eighth floor let. The council declined to name the potential tenant.
Aecom could become the second company to move into 100 Embankment after Salford struck a deal with flexible workspace operator X+Why.
X+Why has taken 28,600 sq ft on the ground and first floor within the 166,000 sq ft building.
The proposed eighth-floor letting “was dependent on” the confirmation of the X+Why letting, according to a report to the city council’s property and regeneration committee.
Salford City Council has also agreed to pay for X+Why’s fit-out costs at 100 Embankment, which could rise to £3.5m.
Salford, which forward funded the construction of the £40m building, has also put the block forward as a contender to house the newly formed Great British Railways.
Much better location for AECOM than the wobbly New York Street office (in smelling distance of the hellhole that is Pic Gardens!). Good news for SCC if this comes off
By Wobbler
Great move for Aecom this, really impressed with this part of Manchester.
By Pete