Contractor Vinci will begin work on site next month on New Victoria, the £185m scheme being delivered by Muse Developments in partnership with Network Rail and Manchester City Council, following the agreement of funding and contractor deals.
Renaker’s 52-storey Crown Street towers next to Deansgate Square, the final phase of Waterside Places’ Islington Wharf, Downing’s 2,240-bed co-living cluster and Vita's Water Street skyscrapers are tipped for approval at Manchester City Council's first virtual meeting of the full planning committee.
In the first in a three-part weekly series, Place North West takes a look at what has been happening on site in and around central Manchester during lockdown.
Work has started this week on Manchester Metropolitan University’s Institute of Sport facility, designed by architecture firm BDP.
Multidisciplinary firm RSK Group has bought Manchester-based civil and structural engineer RoC Consulting, its sixth acquisition in 2020.
A pedestrian and cycle bridge designed by 5Plus Architects has been rolled into position over the M56 spur airport approach road in Manchester.
Main contractor Sir Robert McAlpine has reached practical completion on the £25m and 92,000 sq ft Manchester development, to be occupied in full by life sciences firm Qiagen.
VU.CITY, the fully interactive 3D smart city platform, which now covers 124 sq km of Manchester and Salford and has launched digital twins of Liverpool, Leeds, Sheffield and 15 other cities, is currently offering a free trial on any of their cities.
The £330m refurbishment and upgrade of Manchester’s grade one-listed town hall will finally start after the project was delayed due to Covid-19 and the discovery of peregrine falcons nesting in the clock tower.
The developers are planning a staircase, lift and landscaping for the Deansgate-Castlefield tram stop, as part of their £300m residential and office scheme in central Manchester.
