The Sharp Project, Manchester’s digital content production complex, now has a purpose-built suite of four fully sound-proofed studios, believed to be the only dedicated green screen suite in the UK.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) has endorsed a refreshed and refocused strategy to ensure that the city region’s economy grows – and all of its residents benefit.
Manchester has been chosen to benefit from a €700k funding pot that will link a network of European cities looking at new ways of financing future regeneration projects.
A cluster of run-down, boarded-up properties in East Manchester will be given an overhaul in a new strategy to bring empty homes back in to use in the city.
Boxing-themed exercise classes for tots as young as four have bred a new type of teenybopper.
Manchester City Council’s Executive will be asked to endorse a masterplan for a £40 million ‘community campus’ in east Manchester when it meets on Wednesday 21 November.
Wythenshawe Hall, which has been closed for a year, is set to open for a series of weekends after overwhelming support from a newly-formed friends group.
People in east Manchester are being invited to help shape proposals for a 16-acre ‘community campus' which will create new leisure, education and employment opportunities.
Football legends Mike Summerbee and Tony Book will fix a sign in place on 13 September on a road – which is to be covered in blue tarmac as a tribute to Manchester City’s former home in Moss Side.
Plans for a major expansion to The Sharp Project, which will see hundreds of new jobs created and a cutting-edge global technology company establish its European headquarters there, have been unveiled.
A proposed masterplan for a ‘community campus' in East Manchester - creating sports and leisure facilities, educational opportunities and jobs – will be considered by senior councillors next week.
A report to Manchester City Council’s Executive on 25 July sets out the progress made in developing a home for the organisation formed from the recently-merged Cornerhouse and Library Theatre Company.
Central Government has given the crucial go-ahead for a massive regeneration project for Brunswick, moving forward a £113 million plan that will transform the inner city neighbourhood.
A neglected public space in Manchester city centre has been given a facelift as part of the Manchester Garden City initiative.
A woman with a rare disease which means she can’t control how she moves has beaten the odds by learning how to swim again.
The winners of an international design competition for leading architects to come up with plans to transform St Peter's Square into a world-class space have been announced by Manchester City Council. A design team led by German landscape architect Latz + Partner have been selected to make their vision a reality.
Proposals to transform St Peter's Square into a world-class public space can be viewed online at www.manchester.gov.uk/stpeterssquare
A search has been launched for a lead investment partner to deliver one of Manchester's most important regeneration initiatives.
Plans to transform the Triangle shopping centre into a ‘Covent Garden of the north’ are moving forward after Manchester Cathedral and Chetham’s School of Music gave the proposals the thumbs up.
Manchester City Council has submitted a bid for up to £12 million of government funding to become a ‘superconnected city.’
Plans for a new £4.5 million football stadium in North Manchester with facilities which will benefit the wider community are moving forwards.
The Sharp Project has launched a competition giving designers the chance to win a cash prize.
The Sharp Project in East Manchester, a hub for digital and creative companies, has signed up the first new tenants, for the third and final phase of the 200,000 sq ft digital content complex.
The Chinese Pagoda on the corner of Nicholas Street and Faulkner Street in Manchester city centre’s Chinatown is getting a face-lift.
The first phase of a programme to dramatically improve Manchester City Council’s poster advertising sites - boosting the council’s income and giving the city one of the most hi-tech portfolios in the world - has been completed.
Manchester City Council has teamed up with residents to clear up sites in north and east Manchester.
A new eco learning zone for children was officially opened on Friday (1 October) in Wythenshawe - and it’s already home for hedgehogs, insect colonies and other wildlife in custom-built nests.
A trip to see sharks will round off six weeks of fun-filled activities for Blackley’s Sure Start Children’s Centres this summer.
Over £100 million has been awarded to regenerate the Brunswick area under the government’s Housing Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
Manchester City Council today reiterates that it is continuing to press for a regional casino to be located in the city.