The developer and contractor are now working together across three schemes in Salford and Manchester with the partnership's latest venture, the 25-storey Victoria House on Great Ancoats Street, due to begin in September.
North Block, one of the five distinctive buildings that make up HBD and Capital & Centric’s 533-home development, has completed and construction of the other elements that make up the Manchester scheme is to conclude in the coming months.
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The developer has submitted an application for 12 industrial units on a plot off Grimshaw Lane in Newton Heath previously occupied by engineering firm Mather and Platt.
The developer is seeking feedback on its proposals for Collyhurst South, the second part of its redevelopment of the North Manchester neighbourhood, after submitting plans for the 244-home Collyhurst Village last month.
Salboy is to deliver the £300m scheme's 40-storey residential tower in Manchester alone, but the future of the 240,000 sq ft office element, which Ask Real Estate was overseeing, is uncertain.
An additional 27 acres are to be included in the neighbourhood development framework for the area, including The Manchester College’s Nicholls Campus, which is to be sold as part of an estate revamp.
George Downing Construction, the developer's contracting arm, has been given the go-ahead to start building the 2,224-bedroom scheme on First Street, following the signing of a legal agreement with the city council.
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.
After a string of retail closures on the Manchester street during lockdown, the asset manager has units to fill and the soon-to-be-redeveloped House of Fraser could provide a solution to its high vacancy rates.
