Tower Grange boosts board with NEDs

The funds will go towards helping local independent businesses create covered seating areas in a bid to keep them trading and offset the loss of internal space due to the need to social distance. 

The operator of the 50,000 sq ft hostel on Mount Pleasant in Liverpool city centre plans to add 20 bedrooms and a co-working space as part of rebranding efforts.

Agents dismissed talk of the potential death of offices following the Covid-19 lockdown, reporting an upturn in leasing activity in Liverpool and Manchester over the past two weeks. However, they predicted major changes to occupier demand in the short and long term, which will impact the lettings market in the months ahead.  

The city region has set up an economic recovery taskforce aimed at lifting the local economy after a bruising from the lockdown.

The £118m specialist cancer hospital, linked to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and intended to serve as a hub for NHS facilities across Cheshire and Wirral, is to open on 27 June in the Knowledge Quarter.

Landlord Grosvenor Europe has agreed to lease 4,700 sq ft on Hanover Street in the city centre to the Asian street food chain, which will open its restaurant once lockdown lifts. 

Laing O’Rourke, the main contractor on the £700m hospital rebuild project has outlined the safety processes it has implemented after workers expressed worries over a “lack of health measures on site”.

Liverpool media, music and performing arts institution LMA, which is co-owned by singer Robbie Williams, has revealed plans to take 50,000 sq ft in the Metquarter for studios and teaching space.

Developer Network Space and its contractor Caddick Construction have completed industrial scheme Central 23, located on the northern edge of Liverpool city centre near Ten Streets.