Place Capital makes third acquisition

The investor and developer is working with 5plus Architects to revamp 7-9 Piccadilly in line with the city council’s ambition to reshape Piccadilly Gardens. 

Manchester City Council is looking for urban design and landscape teams to transform the 10-acre site.

Approval has been secured for the replacement of the lodge building at the former Withington Town Hall by a two-storey office.

Ferrous will have 107 homes, a rooftop residents’ gardens, two café-bars and two pocket parks if approved as initially designed.

AEW Investors’ £20m upgrade of the 1990s Manchester office block was designed by 5plus Architects and took three years to complete. 

Mark Adey will take over from Richard Sagar, who will move into a business development and mentoring role at the Manchester-based architect, his latest position in a tenure that has spanned six decades. 

Castlebrooke Investments' refurbishment project will see the 425,000 sq ft building split into three distinct parts and rebranded as Society. 

In 2018, Hewlett Packard Enterprise became the first confirmed tenant of Bruntwood SciTech’s Circle Square in Manchester. Now, years later it has finally moved into its new space.

The architecture firm has taken 18 desks within a serviced suite at Bruntwood Works’ Blackfriars House, its eighth office and second in the North West.