Dan Whelan
Finalising the GMSF, launching a retrofitting revolution and creating a development corporation to drive Middleton’s regeneration are high on the newly re-elected Greater Manchester Mayor’s to-do list.
In one of his first interviews since securing a second term in office in last Thursday’s mayoral election, Andy Burnham told
Place North West that Whitehall needs to collaborate more productively with Greater Manchester if Prime Minister Boris Johnson is to deliver on his election promise to ‘level up’ the regions.
“We are 18 months into this Parliament. I would imagine the Government wants some hard evidence of levelling up [success] by the time the next election comes round,” he said.
Lidl withdraws plans for new Wavertree shop in former cinema
Plans to demolish the Abbey Cinema were scrapped after the building became listed
The former Abbey cinema in Wavertree; pic by Andy Teebay
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Supermarket giant Lidl has withdrawn plans to create a new store within a former cinema building in Wavertree.
Neil Tague
A remaining 7,727 sq ft is up for grabs at the refurbished building in Manchester’s Noma district, now that the Ministry of Justice has finalised its deal to take all 25,000 sq ft of office space.
Place North West in last September, the Dutch Modernist-style building’s renovation having been completed by Russell WBHO six months earlier.
Redfern will be home to a new flagship office for the Ministry of Justice’s National Probation Service, bringing together functions from a number of locations into a city centre hub. The MoJ has agrred a 15-year lease.
Under plans approved by Manchester City Council in 2019, the grade two-listed former warehouse and commercial building has been repurposed as modern office space over six upper floors, with Sheppard Robson as project architect.
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The Subplot | Senior living, big money from Bolton
11 May 2021, 09:00Comments (0)
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Place North West.
THIS WEEK
The Generation Game: North West developers and investors are looking for ways to make mixed-age and senior living BTR a commercial success.
Family Money: Bolton-based Pitalia Real Estate lines up £180m deals, including a monster subject-to-planning buy. What is its strategy?
Chasing Yields: at what point do urban logistics yields get silly?
SENIOR MOMENT
The big opportunity in later life property
Moorfield Group, well known for its Manchester and Salford build-to-rent investments, is now edging into the care-heavy end of senior living. North West developers and investors are watching.