Manchester’s Changing Skyline

[jrb]

Downing Living - 45/26/22/17 stories - First Street - City Centre

Maxwell Downing - Linkedin

We are proud of the progress we have made in developing First Street, Manchester.

We remain firmly committed to revitalizing this southern gateway to one of Europe's most vibrant cities. We are dedicated to creating a greener, more enticing area that everyone can enjoy.

 

[plongo]

Aah, the gentrification continues

 

[jrb]

Can’t remember if I posted this?

2 weeks ago. So a little dated.

The plot 9 office block site in the foreground is to the left.

Downing Living - Linkedin.

First Street development pics. A look back at when we first installed the onsite cameras vs what the site looks like today.

Momentum is building. The sales team were onsite earlier this week to determine the location of the marketing suite when it opens later this year.

 

[jrb]

Fred Done/Salboy is building some good looking developments.

Victoria House - 25 Stories - East Village - City Centre

Stephen Ward - Linkedin

 

[jrb]

Maldron Hotel - 16 stories - Chapel Street - City Centre





McAleer Rushe - Linkedin

The concrete frame on our Chapel Street project is rising from the ground and will peak at Level 16. Located on a site formally used as a surface car park, the project is delivering a new build 188-bedroom Maldron Hotels & Partners in Salford and will be first four-star business hotel to be delivered in the area.

Occupying the entire site footprint, this new build development continues the significant regeneration of the wider Deansgate areas into a vibrant city quarter. The external façade to the new hotel will consist a mixture of curtain walling and masonry at the ground and first floor levels and is designed to achieve a Very Good rating.

Both lift cores are currently at Level 10 and the concrete slab of Level 3 is being poured this week. Scaffold is being erected to accommodate the mast climbers and internal blockwork is soon to commence in coming weeks.

 

[jrb]

MCR’s got some way to go before it catches up with New York and the real Manchattan.

Always wanted to go ot New York. I’ll get there one day.

usofamerica_ig

 

[uwerosler28]

All these new developments look great but will always be dragged down from a aesthetics perspective by the councils insistence on leaving the exterior of the Arndale looking like a 1960s public toilet , including the offices above which are visible from almost all entry points into the city .

 

[jrb]

Drone January construction update.

X1 Waters - 18/16/14/12/10 stories - Pomona Island

 

[jrb]

Trafford Waters







Affordable homes.



Care home.

Trafford Waters

traffordcity.co.uk

Peel Holdings have got there development underway over in Dumplngton, coming up out the ground will soon be another urban complexity of structures. Come along on this Journey with Me. Click subscribe for updates on building phases.

 

[jrb]

Good drone footage of the emerging New Cross district.

I really like Oldham Road. It’s good New York looking vibes about it.

Oldham Road, 12 stories - New Cross

Here is a construction project that I was tasked to cover for a customer. I have put together just two of the videos showing the progress in just 6 months of work. It is a 12 storey building that is being erected in Manchester. I hope you enjoy the video.

 

[jrb]

Another good looking New Cross residential development

Bendix Street - 13 stories - New Cross (close to Oldham Road)

 

[somapop]

Doesn't the Transition site consultation go live tomorrow?
It's truly insane just how much development is going up and is planned (as the country is practically on its knees).

 

[jimharri]

Too lazy to go through all 36 pages, so forgive me @jrb. Are you involved in some way in this huge change to our great city? And no, I'm not taking the piss.

 

[jrb]

Too lazy to go through all 36 pages, so forgive me @jrb. Are you involved in some way in this huge change to our great city? And no, I'm not taking the piss.

Absolutely and sadly not, Jim. Just a passing interest since hearing the IRA bomb go off in 1996, seeing the plume of smoke rising in the city centre from my house in Burnage, and following the redevelopment of Manchester (city centre) since then.

Stumbled across SSC-MCR in 2003 and posted on there until last year. 65,000 posts. Still lurking. Now I’m happy just to post on this thread.

That aside, there are a few posters on BM, 1 in particular, who are involved in shaping the huge change in Manchester and it’s skyline.

Bar this thread, SSC Manchester is the place to go for updates on property development and construction in Manchester.

 

[jrb]

Doesn't the Transition site consultation go live tomorrow?
It's truly insane just how much development is going up and is planned (as the country is practically on its knees).

Apparently so.

 

[Worsleyweb]

Apparently so.

Think you will like it!

 

[jrb]

Think you will like it!

Looking forward to seeing it.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Doesn't the Transition site consultation go live tomorrow?
It's truly insane just how much development is going up and is planned (as the country is practically on its knees).

Much is driven by pension funds.

 

[Worsleyweb]

Much is driven by pension funds.

Indeed it is. Rents are high so yields are strong and even during Covid most residential blocks collected high percentage of rents. Much higher than commercial investments. People may not be aware but the population of Manchester is rising by around 30,000 people a year and about half of that in the city centre. Each tower holds an average of 300 apartments. (Say 600 people). 20 towers a year needed believe it or not to satisfy demand. We are a second city and very popular. To grow a a city though - we desperately need an underground system. Simply has to happen.

 

[jrb]

Benjamin Keeble - Linkedin