The Subplot | Freeports, flexible floorspace, financing hotels
9 Feb 2021, 09:00Comments (1)
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Place North West.
This week: will a Liverpool freeport with tentacles extending into Greater Manchester become a regional game-changer? With WeWork pondering a return to the acquisitions trail in Manchester, how will the flexible office sector make money and who will make it? Meanwhile,
Subplot takes a look at property industry donations to politics, and examines the tightening investment criteria for hotels.
FREEPORT FIZZLE
Déjà vu all over again
Bids for the UK’s first 10 next-generation freeports closed on Friday, with Liverpool among them and a Greater Manchester site included. Would it deliver for the city-region and the wider North West, or would land supply issues screw it up?