Cort resigns, MIF to hire Factory venue director

A long-awaited public consultation has opened to help shape future design proposals for the much-criticised public square and surrounding areas.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bolton-based online appliances retailer AO is in talks to be Manchester Arena's first sponsor since 2015.

This year will see fresh services launched including a development map to complement news stories and branded content production for partners.

The region’s leading property media platform hosted a record number of people at 30 events in 2019, and expects further growth in 2020.