23 Dec 2020, 09:00
This summer there was no European Championship football or Olympic Games to distract us from the news, but at least nobody was talking about tiers.
In July, a celebrity chef withdrew plans to open a restaurant in Salford while an outspoken developer gave planning committee members a piece of his mind.
Byrne was due to open Blackfriar in Salford
BRIDGES BYRNED
…Celebrity chef Aiden Byrne has pulled out of a project to reopen Salford’s Blackfriars pub, a £2m scheme by developer Salboy, as a fine dining restaurant, in favour of a slightly more modest operation: selling cured meat out of a garage in Lymm. Given the choice between lobster thermidor within the confines of a grade two-listed building and hawking salami out of the boot of his car, Byrne chose the latter. And who can blame him? Cleaning out an old garage next to his Lymm eatery, the Church Green Pub, and flogging his own range of charcuterie seems like a much smaller financial risk in these uncert
Daniel Whelan
The investor has bought the freehold of the developer’s £85m residential scheme on Woden Street.
The exact value of the deal between McGoff Group and Aviva was not disclosed but will see the latter collect annual ground rents to support its future investment and pension plans, while the developer will continue to manage the property and provide a letting service to tenants.
Beyond Corporate Law advised McGoff on the legalities of the transaction with Aviva.
McGoff Construction, part of the wider McGoff Group, completed the 374-apartment development in April.
All the units within the six-block development were sold off-plan to a mix of owner-occupiers and overseas buyers after being marketed in Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai through Alliance Investments.