Giggs quits as Jacksons Row director 

The fledgling regeneration firm has appointed Karl Eddy and Scot Morrison as non-executive directors. 

Nina Barker has been named as head of residential at developer Town Centre Securities, joining from her role leading on residential sales and marketing across the North for CBRE.

The consultancy has appointed Matt Pickersgill as associate director from Lambert Smith Hampton. 

The law firm has taken an additional 5,200 sq ft on the fourth floor of Mapletree’s 3 Hardman Street in Manchester, increasing its presence in the building to almost 20,000 sq ft. 

As it prepares to open its fifth Manchester site within the £750m mixed-use Circle Square in mid-May, the hotel chain is scouring the city for sites to house further schemes of up to 200 bedrooms.

The developer is close to selling the 32,000 sq ft office block on Manchester's Liverpool Road to the city council, and launching a consultation on proposals to regenerate the site together with the former Campfield covered markets.

Clothing brand Fred Perry has signed to relocate to Bruntwood Works’ iconic retail emporium in Manchester, where it will launch a store on the corner of Oldham Street and Church Street.

This spring, the architecture firm will make the short trip from its current Manchester office on Tariff Street having signed for 4,000 sq ft at Cert Property’s Northern Quarter block.  

The consultancy has appointed Alistair Greenhalgh, Lauren Verdi Bowker, and Demetri Papaioannou to its Manchester office.