One New Bailey

One New Bailey completes

The first office development at English Cities Fund’s New Bailey scheme next to Spinningfields and the River Irwell, has reached practical completion.

The 125,000 sq ft building brings eight storeys of much soughtafter new BREEAM ‘excellent’ office space to the city centre market.

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Construction work was carried out by Bowmer & Kirkland. Tenants have started their internal fit-out programmes. London law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer has taken 80,000 sq ft from the third floor upwards. TP Bennett is designing Freshfields’ internal space. Freshfields is expected to take occupation at the start of 2017.

Bar and restaurant operator Menagerie has taken 6,000 sq ft on the ground floor. The new dining concept, which will serve modern American cuisine is expected to open this summer with Freshfields moving in during 2017.

Phil Mayall, development director of ECf, said: “New Bailey is fast becoming a central location for business and leisure, bridging the gap between two great cities, and One New Bailey is just the beginning.

“The development has unrivalled transport links and many great amenities right on its doorstep. Ultimately, we are creating a vibrant place for a new generation of professionals to live, work and play. The tenants that we already have at One New Bailey demonstrate our commitment to bringing investment and something completely new to Salford.”

In addition to the business and leisure developments at New Bailey, work has also started on  225 new PRS residential units as part of the wider scheme. The new homes, which will be split between two blocks, have been forward funded by L&G and as such, are the first build to rent developments of their kind to achieve institutional investment in Manchester.

“The transformation of this area of Salford is continuing to gather pace and it’s great to see improvements to the local infrastructure also helping to drive the change,” Mayall added.

“The progression of the works on the Ordsall Chord and renovations to Salford Central train station will greatly benefit New Bailey, as well as the wider region and I have no doubt that it will have a big impact on bringing more businesses, people and investment to the area.”

Salford City Mayor Paul Dennett said: “New Bailey is a prime location for both businesses and residents at the heart of the regional centre. It’s a stunning transformation of former underused land into Salford’s new business district. It has the potential to create thousands of jobs in a wide range of fields as well as new city centre housing both of which are very welcome in our fast growing city.”

The nearby Premier Inn and New Bailey NCP car park, which opened in 2014 and 2015 respectively, are also a part of the New Bailey development. Now that One New Bailey is complete, work will now begin on the next phase of development at the scheme, a second office building.

JLL and Cushman & Wakefield are the joint agents on the New Bailey scheme. Aedas RHWL is the architect and Buro Four was the project manager.

ECf is a joint venture between Muse Developments, Legal & General and the Homes & Communities Agency.

Click image to launch gallery. All images courtesy of Aedas RHWL

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Puts XYZ to shame, this building has risen in half the time, and there was a building there to demolish first! XYZ (a greenfield site) was already in the ground yet is still miles from practical completion!!

By Leftbank Resident

NB a much better building as well!

By Leftbank Food-eater

Looks good quality and has done a lot for a part of town with even greater potential…

By Schwyz

and soon to be filled with Lawyers…… Freshfields

By Today

It looks nice in the flesh too.Again we see Salford providing more innovative buildings and proving that less is more.XYZ building with it’s pretentitious name tells you all you need to know about that.Maybe the Zed is pronounced Zee.

By Elephant

Watched this progress daily (park in adjacent NCP). Yeh, they’ve done quite well, Bowmer and Kirkland. Quite an impressive delivery programme. Wonder who their construction PM was. Quality not brilliant but it’ll bed-in fine.

By George Smith

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