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The city centre was far quieter than usual

Nicole Berry, 25, threw the vodka bottles in an attempt to help her boyfriend during a late-night brawl in Manchester after they had spent the evening celebrating her new job as a social worker.

Sarah Townsend The 158-bedroom property on Princess Street designed by architect Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios opens to the public today as the operator’s fifth in Manchester. The 16-storey hotel is located within developers Bruntwood SciTech and Vita Group’s £750m Circle Square mixed-use scheme off Oxford Road. The hybrid building comprises a 1,014-space car park across the first nine floors, and the hotel is located on floors nine to 15, taking Premier Inn’s Manchester portfolio to mo...

Dan Whelan The former managing director has left the property company he co-founded with Alan Murphy in 2003 after 18 years at the helm.  According to Nick Payne’s Linkedin profile, he left developer Nikal in January and is now listed as an “unattached” real estate specialist.  The reasons behind his departure are not yet known. Both Payne and Nikal have been contacted for comment but had yet to provide statements about the news at the time of publication.   Payne has also stepped down...

Sarah Townsend Jim Ramsbottom, the regeneration expert who transformed the canal-strewn pocket of Manchester into the mixed-use district it is today, has died at the age of 81. Ramsbottom’s development company Castlefield Estates rose to prominence in the 1990s as it introduced urban renewal to the historic industrial heartland of Castlefield Basin, close to Deansgate Locks on the edge of the city centre. The company is now run by his daughter-in-law Sarah Ramsbottom and his son James owns t...

Flats, offices, and a hotel - the latest developments approved by Manchesters planning committee A number of planning applications were considered at the last planning committee meeting of the year 17:07, 18 DEC 2020 Dont miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inboxInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Click here When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll inc...

December 18, 2020 at 10:27 amBy Anonymous Given that councillors live in the city, can they not do site visits in their own time instead of wasting other people’s time and money just so they can have a day out? December 18, 2020 at 10:32 amBy Anonymous Baffling that the Speakers House development has been knocked back yet utter rubbish like the 2-4 Whitworth approved, it’s an absolute shocker of a building. December 18, 2020 at 10:45 amBy Jon P So the best two schemes are deferred – laugh...

Developer – General Projects Planner – Deloitte Real Estate General Projects, a London-based developer that specialises in “creative modern marketplaces”, envisages a hub that would bring together more than 100 small-and-medium-sized businesses with larger, blue-chip companies. The 325,000 sq ft scheme on Pollard Street would be the developer’s first in Manchester. Under the proposals, General Projects would construct five buildings containing a mix of office space ranging from micro...