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November 4, 2008 Manchester's prime site, Elisabeth House to be redeveloped
The Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund (GMPVF) and Argent have entered into a joint venture agreement to take forward the redevelopment of Manchester's Elisabeth House in St Peter's Square. Councillor Roy Oldham, Chair of Greater Manchester Pension Fund says: “We are ...
October 23, 2008 Manchester’s 21st Century Transport Film Launched
Transport, congestion charging, and a proposed £3 billion investment in Manchester's infrastructure have all been making the headlines of late. Extensive consultation has sought the views of both residents and businesses. There is no doubt that this is the biggest ...
October 23, 2008 Manchester's position as a leading European business city reinforced
A report published last week by real estate specialists Cushman & Wakefield has seen Manchester climb even further up the list of leading European business locations from 18th to 14th, placing it above every UK city outside London and moving ...
October 23, 2008 Manchester's Inward Investment Agency bucks trend to reveal record half year results
MIDAS reports 1,600 new Greater Manchester jobs created in last six months MIDAS, Manchester’s Inward Investment and Development Agency, has today announced record half-year job creation figures for the city region. A series of high-profile relocations to the region that have taken ...
July 31, 2008 Silver Films Shines with New Toyota Sponsorships
Manchester's Silver Films has produced two new TV sponsorship campaigns for Toyota, both of which will be airing on ITV1 across 2008. Silver has worked with Toyota’s above-the-line agency, CHI & Partners, to produce idents for the car manufacturer’s Auris and ...
July 31, 2008 b.TWEEN: Mapping Creativity – an opportunity to win £25,000 comission!
Manchester Beacon want to commission an interactive project that drives collective creativity to connect people, places and knowledge across Manchester and Salford Four ideas will be selected and receive £1,000 to develop their ideas further The final commission will be £25,000 ...
July 9, 2008 Five new hotels planned for Manchester
Major property developer West Properties has vowed to invest £250 million in the Manchester hotel landscape by constructing a total of 5 hotels throughout the city region and include the Origin Scheme on Princess Street. The privately owned company, which has ...
July 8, 2008 Economic downturn will not affect Manchester commercial property market
Property experts Lambert Smith Hampton claim that Manchester's office developments will not remain empty even if the economy goes into a recession, according to their first national office sector reserach report. Findings of the report conclude that Manchester's economy and particularly ...
July 4, 2008 Manchester Business School joins world's elite as CFA partner
Manchester Business School (MBS) has joined an elite worldwide group of educational institutions and become a program partner with CFA Institute, the global association for investment professionals that award the prestigious Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) designation. Four of ...
July 3, 2008 Manchester researchers get funding boost in fight against leukaemia
University of Manchester researchers have been awarded £1.6 million to study a group of genes identified as playing a key role in leukaemia. The grant, by Leukaemia Research, will fund work analysing a wide range of cancer-causing genes in the hope ...