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A subterranean three-floor Asian food hall will open in Manchester’s Circle Square this summer. Called Hello Oriental, it is being launched by the group behind Manchester restaurant Ocean Treasure, and will draw inspiration from Asian dining destinations such as Bang Bang Oriental in London and 1800 Lucky in Miami, serving Chinese and Vietnamese cuisine.   Bearing the same name as the recently launched online supermarket, Hello Oriental will be open daily from 10...

17 Feb 2021, 09:25 Hello Oriental, a 6,000 sq ft market hall and dining destination, is to open at Bruntwood SciTech’s Manchester mixed-use development in July.  Located over three floors in the South Pavilion, the venue will offer a range of Chinese and East Asian street food.   South Pavilion, one of two ground floor and subterranean space spaces within Circle Square, is located in Symphony Park, the public green space at the centre of Bruntwood SciTech’s Oxford Road scheme. The Hello...

A huge underground Chinese market hall is heading to Manchester city centre Hello Oriental will span three floors at the Circle Square development Updated An enormous new market hall will open in Manchester this summer, specialising in Chinese and Vietnamese food. Hello Oriental will span across three floors, mostly underground, at the citys new Circle Square development off Oxford Road. The concept has been created by popular local Chinese restaurant Ocean Treasure. As well as a food hall serv...

UPDATE STATEMENT ON COVID-19 RENT COLLECTION AND ANNUAL RESULTS Bruntwood Group Limited ("Bruntwood") today updates the market on the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on its business, including the publication of the 2020 financial statements and a summary of the latest rent collection position. Chris Oglesby, CEO of Bruntwood, said "Footfall in our buildings continued to increase steadily in the autumn of 2020 as our "return to the workplace" programme and assura...

Sarah Townsend The Manchester-based developer and asset manager posted a pre-tax loss of £18.9m for the year ended 30 September 2020, “against a backdrop of declining commercial property values”. Bruntwood said the value of its 100%-owned Bruntwood Works portfolio remained consistent year-on-year at £973.1m, but it recorded a £21.2m valuation loss as it invested capital to maintain its portfolio’s value as commercial property values declined during the Covid-19 pandemic. “This accoun...

Dan Whelan BT’s 175,000 sq ft letting at English Cities Fund’s Four New Bailey saw office take-up for the final quarter of 2020 hit 350,000 sq ft, taking the total for the year to 800,000 sq ft, the first time total annual transactions in the city centre have dropped below 1m sq ft since 2013.  The yearly total for a Covid-hit 2020 is significantly lower than that recorded in 2019 when almost 1.5m sq ft of deals were signed.   However, after a strong final quarter, which saw a 280,...

8 Jan 2021, 12:17 REDMAN…Was it a trick of the light or did Steve Rotheram really paint his own face red to demonstrate his unwavering allegiance to the Labour party and his beloved Liverpool FC? Rotheram’s decision to politicise his own countenance was a bold one, but one that will surely earn him even more admirers within left-leaning Merseyside ahead of his bid for re-election as city-region mayor in a few months’ time.  BRIDGE…A grade two-listed footbridge at Lancaster train statio...

Sarah Townsend Contractor Russell WBHO has finished building the 158-bedroom hotel in Manchester on behalf of Bruntwood SciTech and Vita Group, which are developing the £750m Circle Square mixed-use scheme in a joint venture. The 16-storey Premier Inn on Princes Street is due to open in February and comprises a 1,018-space multistorey car park across the first 10 floors (ground to nine), and the hotel reception and accommodation on floors nine to 15 behind an aluminium façade. Russell was app...

Post-pandemic Cleveland needs 225th birthday gift of strong leadership: Brent Larkin Updated Dec 20, 2020; Posted Dec 20, 2020 For Clevelands bicentennial celebrations in July 1996, the citys bridges were lighted up. As the citys 225th anniversary approaches in 2021, the optimism of 25 years ago has been replaced by the harsh dislocations of the COVID-19 pandemic. The city will endure -- but it will take determined and united political and civic leadership, Brent Larkin writes today. (The Pla...