HSBC buys into Wirral office park

Jane Deane from urban regeneration company New East Manchester has been appointed as programme director of Peel Holding’s Media City UK.

The British Council of Shopping Centres has confirmed that its 2008 conference will be held in Liverpool.

The Rhead Group’s northern office is to be relocated to Charles Topham’s Merchant’s Place office development in Bolton town centre.

Developers are being sought for a 165-acre project in Bolton to be anchored by new university facilities and a digital media park.

The North West Development Agency has named its first director of the European programme as it begins to take control of the crucial ERDF grant regime.

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The former Donaldsons retail agency team in Manchester, now part of DTZ, is leaving to join Cushman & Wakefield.

Bruntwood has appointed Knight Frank and Irving Rice to market No1 Dale Street in Liverpool city centre as it undergoes a £2m refurbishment.

Agents on the redeveloped 80 Mosley Street are on course to pre-let around 50% of the building before completion in the first quarter of 2008.

National Museums Liverpool has replaced lead architect 3XN with AEW on the flagship Museum of Liverpool and called for changes to the detailed design.

The £31m Chill Factore, one of the biggest leisure attractions to hit the North West in recent years, opens its doors on Friday.

MEPC has unveiled its latest signing at its Birchwood Park office campus near Warrington, with GB Oils taking nearly 10,000 sq ft in Building 302.

Roy Morris, chairman of inward investment and tourism agency The Mersey Partnership, has resigned and will leave at the end of the year.

A Cheshire airfield specialist is expecting to increase its revenue by almost 70% after buying out a competitor.

Tesco and Everton FC have opened a three-day exhibition to show Kirkby residents how a proposed new stadium would look if plans are approved.

The Bank of Scotland has agreed a £360m financial package to fund Peel Holdings’ Media City UK scheme in Salford Quays.

Developer Your Space is to invest a further £750,000 into the refurbishment of one of its serviced-office centres in Manchester.

Neptune’s regeneration of the New Brighton waterfront will go ahead after Hazel Blears decided not to hold a public inquiry into the developer’s plans.

High-profile Merseyside lawyer Michael Prince, partner in DLA Piper’s Liverpool office, is taking early retirement to become a non-executive director.