Airport City Enterprise Zone

[richardio123]

Ahh it looks ridiculous without the trees !!

[Lookin Up]

The sad truth is that the trees are being removed now before nesting birds get their act together and 'delay' proceedings.
But hey that's the price of progress (?)

[neil]

MIPIM: Airport City work to start next month
13th March 2013

MANCHESTER Airports Group (MAG) plans to start work on its £650m Airport City scheme next month.

At international property convention MIPIM today, MAG's Airport City director Karen Campbell said engineers were weeks away from starting on a £27m programme of infrastructure works.

"This will include roads, landscaping and utility works that will all help in delivering the first phase," she said.

She also told an audience at the event's Manchester stand that a joint venture partner for the development should be announced in mid-June.

She said: "We're in the process of securing a jont venture partner... we're very pleased with the level of interest we've had from international developers and the standard of people interested in this project."

Airport City has two areas, the 1.4 sq ft logistics hub to the south and the one million sq ft office scheme to the north of the airport.

Ms Campbell said Airport City is being marketed at international businesses not served by traditional out-of-town office parks. "We're looking at international companies looking to locate in the UK who will be a few minutes walk from workplace to check-in."

Andrew Cliffe, managing director for assets at MAG, told the audience the £1.5bn takeover of Stansted in January was "just the start of our ambitions".

"It's been a successful 12 months but you will see an awful lot more from us over the next two years and Airport City will be at the heart of that."

He said there would be new services, with Asia Pacific growth a "key target". The airport has been working on a direct service to China for some time.

"We'll continue to target this area from Manchester and we have the same ambition at Stansted where we'll be expanding long haul flights and will have greater short haul connectivity."

[richardio123]

Looks like its already started



Took today

as already said its for jetparks extension but its still technically for airport city

[jrb]

Airport City.

Several international companies have expressed a desire to have a base in the North West.(I take it that means Airport City?)

[Altfish]

I was out with the dog in Sunbank Wood and drove down Sunbank Lane to Wilmslow Road (A538); all the fields appeared to have newt fencing up.
Are they starting work on the logistic hub in Trafford too?

I assume they are allowing for HS2 coming through this area!

[neil]

Argent-led consortium 'chosen for Airport City'
12th April 2013


ARGENT, the Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund and Carillion are understood to have been selected as preferred bidders to develop the £659m Airport City North scheme.

PropertyWeek.com says the consortium is days away from being named by Manchester Airports Group (MAG) to redevelop 65 acres north of the airport into an office and manufacturing base.

A MAG spokesman refused to confirm the report, stating, "No party has yet been selected for the final stage in our joint venture partner selection process."

Plans were approved in January for 1.2m sq ft of offices, 530,000 sq ft of manufacturing space and 1,300 hotel beds.

The project is at the centre of the 150-acre Manchester Airport City Enterprise Zone unveiled by chancellor George Osborne in January 2012, which also includes a major logistics hub to the south of the airport.

Greater Manchester Property Venture Fund is already working with Manchester-based Argent and contractor Carillion on the One St Peter’s Square office scheme in the city and is thought to have pulled together the partnership. Other contenders were understood to be Ask Developments, Segro, Development Securities and Goodman.

Under the consortium’s plan, Carillion would likely take charge of the industrial element of the scheme, and the retail, leisure and office elements would be developed by Argent. The site is a mix of scrubland and temporary airport parking, bordered by the M56 spur road and Woodhouse Park area of Wythenshawe.

As well as offices, industrial space, and hotel beds, Airport City promises 62,000 sq ft of retail and a 13-acre central park area.

MAG's spokesman added: "We are pleased with the level of interest shown to date by a number of parties in relation to the Airport City Project at Manchester Airport; as a number of bids have come from a range of international developers and funders.”

Consortium members declined to comment.