NOW BOOKING | Do business in person at Place Events
Developments in Greater Manchester, networking in Liverpool and public-private partnerships will all be on the agenda during Place’s season of in-person events beginning next month.
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From 24 June, Place North West will be bringing property people back together again at conferences, social gatherings and debates.
Cort resigns, MIF to hire Factory venue director
Christine Cort, the longstanding managing director of Manchester International Festival, is leaving her post in March and a new role is being created.
Manchester invites Piccadilly Gardens input
A long-awaited public consultation has opened to help shape future design proposals for the much-criticised public square and surrounding areas.
Styles takes stake in Manchester venue
Co-op Live, the £350m music arena to be built at Eastlands, has announced an investment tie-up with musician Harry Styles described by developer Oak View Group as a “huge coup”.
REGISTER NOW | September conferences with Place
The future of offices and a look at developments in Greater Manchester and Liverpool are among the topics under scrutiny at Place conferences in September.
PODCAST | Chris Oglesby: Creating cities that thrive
The chief executive of Bruntwood, which has a £1bn investment portfolio across the UK, tells Lisa Morton, founder of Roland Dransfield, about the values, passion and drive it takes to build thriving cities including his hometown, Manchester.
Heatmaps show how city centre went cold
The amount of people visiting Manchester city centre fell by 70% from the first two weeks of March to the second two weeks after restrictions on movement were brought in, according to a series of heatmaps produced by Place Dashboard, a shopper behaviour analyst based at Manchester Science Park.
Manchester at MIPIM programme unveiled
Sustainability will dominate the stand events out at Cannes this year as Manchester again takes a bumper delegation of 95 partners and counting with three weeks to go.
Manchester Arena and AO in sponsorship talks
Bolton-based online appliances retailer AO is in talks to be Manchester Arena's first sponsor since 2015.
