Bloomberg has published a feature about Manchester’s rapid growth and how the city is rising up the international ranks to give London ‘a run for its money’.
The Business Desk reports that a consultation is under way on airport-based campus that could create 8,000 jobs and that a hotel operator has plans for a 34-storey hotel apartment scheme that would bring the Union Bank building on Piccadilly back into use.
Business Live has news that semiconductor giant Arm is expanding in Manchester city centre after signing the largest office deal yet at Gary Neville’s £400m St Michael’s development and that a new car dealership is poised to open in St Ann's Square, Manchester.
Manchester City Council has announced the delivery partner for its £500m regeneration of Wythenshawe Civic. Muse will work with the council on transforming the 1970s shopping centre and surrounding areas.
Marketing Stockport reports planning permission has been secured for the new Community Hub in Marple and that Northern has appointed a former Transport for London resource planner, who is originally from Stockport, as its new head of operational delivery in the North West.