
Another five years secured for Manchester BID
Manchester’s city centre Business Improvement District is to run for a second five-year term.
Manchester’s city centre Business Improvement District is to run for a second five-year term.
Worsley New Hall in Salford may have been demolished in 1946, but the Royal Horticultural Society wants to preserve memories of the site as part of its 150-acre RHS Garden Bridgewater, due to open in 2020.
David Green has joined the planning practice as associate, growing the Manchester team to three.
When Manchester and Liverpool agreed to work together at MIPIM UK back at the event’s inception in 2014, who’d have thought the combined efforts would evolve to the extent of one leader cutting up food for the other but that’s apparently what had to happen at a dinner this week after Sir Richard Leese arrived with his right arm broken and in a cast.
PR consultancy Citypress has taken a 10,000 sq ft letting at Bruntwood’s Union building in Manchester, marking the first major deal for the office development on Albert Square.
The long-awaited market opened at 12pm yesterday in the 12,700 sq ft grade two-listed building in the Northern Quarter, with co-founder Nick Johnson saying it “could feed at least 20,000 people a week”.
The environmental consultancy firm has hired Sarah van de Berg, Graham Walker, and Harriet Wingfield in September to its Hilton Street office in Manchester, bringing the transport team up to seven.
These two drag queens were hired to welcome guests at U+I’s Mayfield launch, and didn’t they look fabulous? The regeneration specialists held the party in the Manchester Piccadilly depot courtyard, before work starts on transforming the 24-acre site.
Events and business tourism in general continue to be central to the success of the city region visitor economy, Marketing Manchester chief executive Sheona Southern told the Greater Manchester Tourism Conference.
Anna de la Perrelle has joined 26 Letters PR as a director to head up the London-based agency’s new Northern division, working alongside fellow director Christine Webb and managing director David Martin.