Leisure
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Ship Canal company selected for £55m Manc scheme
Manchester Ship Canal Developments has been selected to deliver a £55m mixed-use development in Manchester’s Northern Quarter.
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Market decline gifts Whitbread hotel sites
Hotel and restaurant group Whitbread has allocated £100m to turn sites previously earmarked for office and residential use into hotels.
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Room occupancy hits profits at Millennium & Copthorne
Luxury hotels group Millennium & Copthorne said second-quarter profit dropped by 35% after costs increased and room occupancy fell in Europe, the US and in particular in the UK.
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JLL to power Maxim’s Scottish office scheme
Jones Lang LaSalle has been appointed to lure international tenants to one of Scotland’s largest speculative office schemes.
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Hotel du Vin buys Canterbury warehouse for redevelopment
Hotel chain Hotel du Vin has bought a converted warehouse in Canterbury, Kent, for redevelopment as a 40-bed hotel.
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Dutch architect to design new Birmingham Library
Birmingham council and Argent have chosen Dutch architect Mecanoo to design the new Birmingham Library.
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St Modwen sells stake in Trentham Gardens hotel
St Modwen has sold its stake in the Premier Inn Hotel at its Trentham Gardens Estate in Staffordshire.
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CBRE provides debt for Heron Parc Lille
CB Richard Ellis has arranged an €81m (£64m) finance facility for Heron International to build its Heron Parc Lille scheme in France.
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JLL to advise on Stratford Island scheme
Jones Lang LaSalle has been hired to advise on securing a developer for the £1bn Stratford Island scheme close to the 2012 Olympics site in east London.
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Hammersmith to break into Wormwood Scrubs
Plans to create a 60-acre mega-development around Wormwood Scrubs in west London are being drawn up by Hammersmith & Fulham council and Network Rail
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Blackpool secures £4m funding for Tower events space
Blackpool council has been awarded £4m by the government for the creation of an outdoor performance and events space next to Blackpool Tower.
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Noise crisis hits project in Bury St Edmunds
The local council has had to plug a £1.75m funding gap at Centros’s regeneration of Bury St Edmunds caused by “acoustic challenges”.