Capital & Centric has submitted plans to transform Wigan Civic Centre into the town’s “best workplace”.
The developer plans to turn the 1970s-built concrete brutalist building into a scheme comprising creative workspaces for a range of start-up and growing businesses, a coffee shop with outdoor seating, gym, mini cinema and cycle storage available to tenants.
Sabine Dunstan, development manager at Capital & Centric, said: “The bones of Civic are beautiful, but it is long overdue a refresh. We are planning to keep and celebrate all the original concrete detailing, but make it hands-down the best workspace in the town centre and wider region. We are planning to frame it with lush planting and new outdoor spaces where people can hang out in the summer, with new gardens that will really animate the whole, currently boarded-up, street.”
She added: “Impactful design doesn’t have to be the preserve of core city centres. We want entrepreneurs to see that they can have design-led, creative and social workspaces beyond the centre of Manchester. Doing so will help both retain and attract exciting businesses to Wigan, creating more job opportunities based in the town centre for decades to come.”
Work has already started to strip out unusable fittings and prepare the site for restoration. Work is expected to get fully underway in spring 2024, with the first businesses able to move in during summer 2025.
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