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Dan Whelan
SH Hotels & Resorts is to operate the 216-bedroom hotel under its Treehouse brand and a planning application has been lodged for the project, part of the wider £200m redevelopment of the Deansgate site.
The hotel operator is owned by an affiliate of US-based investor Starwood Capital, which bought the site in joint venture with Property Alliance Group earlier this year.
The Manchester offering would be the second Treehouse Hotel in the UK following the brand’s maiden opening in London in 2019.
“Manchester is as much a destination for travellers as a gathering place for its energetic local community,” said Starwood chairman Barry Sternlicht.
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MANCHESTER,
England, May 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ SH Hotels & Resorts announced that it will open its award-winning Treehouse Hotel in Manchester, the brand s second UK location, in 2023. Treehouse Hotel Manchester, owned by a controlled affiliate of Starwood Capital Group, is being developed in partnership with Property Alliance Group and will mark the first phase of a £200m redevelopment of the former Renaissance Hotel on Deansgate.
Treehouse Hotels celebrates the joy of youth, of freedom, of fun, of dreams, and friends, real and imaginary. In a Treehouse you leave the everyday and enter a world of your own imagination. The wondrous, childhood feeling of climbing into a treehouse and making up your own rules. Designed to appeal to the youthful spirit in all of us, Treehouse Hotel Manchester will be fun, fresh, and fabulous inspired by life s joys. The hotel is being designed in collaboration with UK-based 93ft to restore the building, incorporating an organic aesthetic to
Sarah Townsend
Manchester City Council has approved a deal to buy the 32,000 sq ft office block on Liverpool Road from Allied London, a move to help redevelop the neighbouring Campfield Markets, part of the wider district masterplan.
Under the deal – the value of which was not disclosed – the city council will surrender and dispose of the long leaseholds of Castlefield House, Lower and Upper Campfield Market in Manchester to developer Allied, to consolidate the site’s ownership.
Allied proposes to refurbish and regenerate the buildings, providing new workspace for creative and technology businesses and an events venue, as part of its ongoing development of the St John’s district west of the city centre, including the 1m sq ft Enterprise City commercial quarter.
Sarah Townsend
Avison Young’s Manchester-based planning principal Jon Suckley has left the company to launch an independent planning consultancy, and Richard Barton is now heading up the department.
Barton, also a planning principal in the Manchester office of the property services firm, has assumed full responsibility for the planning division, which Avison expanded with the acquisition of GVA in February 2019.
GVA in turn had acquired boutique consultancy HOW Planning the previous year, and many of Avison’s current and former planning staff, including Barton, Suckley and principal Gary Halman – who remains in post – originally worked at HOW.
Suckley is launching his own independent practice