Manchester city council has approved plans to revamp the Cornbrook area and a scheme involving Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville to take over the former Bootle Street police station.
A development company owned by the former footballers is closing in on Manchester’s former Bootle Street police station to unlock four sites for a mixed-use project.
It would then enter a land pooling and sale arrangement with Jackson’s Row Development Company to redevelop the station, the adjoining United Reform Synagogue, the Abercrombie pub and a parcel of open land on Jackson’s Row.
The police station – now vacant – is the final and largest piece required by JRDC, owned by Neville and Giggs with entrepreneur Brendan Flood, to unlock a development of around 500,000 sq ft on the two-acre plot.
At a meeting yesterday the council authorised chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein’s bid to team up with the police commissioner to purchase the station.
Also approved was the Cornbrook framework, which will help shape planning applications for the area. A wholesale regeneration is planned with several hundred thousand square feet of hotels, office space and housing.
The executive also approved Bruntwood’s plans to expand Manchester Science Park.
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