Neil Tague
Developer McCauls plans to create 89 homes and 8,000 sq ft of workspace at the grade two-listed 32-34 Laystall Street, just off Manchester’s Great Ancoats Street.
Designed by OMI Architects, the plans will see the restoration of the 1879 building into commercial space. The building was initially constructed as the offices, showroom and workshops of John Armitage & Son’s terracotta and fireclay manufacturing company.
The building will be extended to the corner of Laystall Street and Pigeon Street, “with a contemporary addition to provide a new vertical circulation system for the building”.
To the rear of the showroom, the intention is to build a nine-storey residential development configured in a horse-shoe around a landscaped courtyard. Deloitte is advising on planning, with Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture also on the team.
Decatur, Ga., officials finalized plans to address a tricky railroad crossing.
The coronavirus pandemic has stalled many railroad projects in 2020, but the railroad crossing intersection improvement project in Decatur, Ga., now seems ready for a jumpstart.
City officials met with the public during a virtual open house on Dec. 9 to finalize the Atlanta Avenue project. The city commission approved the Adair crossing extension back in August 2019, which will extend Adair Street from West Howard to West College Avenue.
The most recent meeting was to get the public’s input on pedestrian and bicycle priorities, streetscaping and landscaping, and traffic calming for the Adair crossing extension plan.