The 50:50 joint venture between developers Capital & Centric and Kamani Property Group has launched a consultation on plans to redevelop a vacant site within Manchester’s New Cross district into a nine-storey block comprising 120 apartments.
Developer McCauls has submitted proposals including 89 homes and 8,000 sq ft of workspace at a site including the grade two-listed 32-34 Laystall Street, just off Manchester’s Great Ancoats Street.
The combined authority has awarded the developer loans of £37.5m and £32.4m from its Housing Investment Loans Fund to support the development of just under 1,000 apartments across schemes in the Greengate area of Salford and within the Great Jackson Street regeneration zone in Manchester.
General Projects' 325,000 sq ft office complex in New Islington and Aberdeen Standard Investments' Whitworth Street hotel were among schemes approved by Manchester City Council this week, but others were refused or deferred until January.
Work has begun to knock down the Base building near the University of Manchester on Oxford Road and replace it with a five-storey, 91,000 sq ft workspace for computer engineering, manufacturing, science and technology companies.
Contractor Westfields Construction has reached the highest point at The Gate and The Stile residential buildings at developer Far East Consortium’s £200m Meadowside development in Manchester.
Construction services firm Bowmer + Kirkland has been appointed as the main contractor to build Manchester Metropolitan University’s Faculty of Science and Engineering, and to refurbish the John Dalton complex.
Who would want to predict what might happen in 2021? Fortunately, property professionals are a hardy breed, and Place North West asked those at the sharp end how conditions in commercial real estate are likely to evolve over the next 12 months.
Contractor Domis is preparing to start construction of the developer’s 17-storey office building on Back Turner Street in Manchester after the city council approved a construction management plan.
The under-construction Manchester arts venue has received £21m from the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and Arts Council England, intended to help offset a string of challenges that have led to mounting costs and project delays.
