The £1bn Spinningfields project in Manchester city centre is now approaching completion.A team from Capita Symonds’ Cheadle Hume office, led by Director Kevin Mitchell, has been providing structural, civil and geo-environmental engineering services on the mixed-use project for the past seven years.
The client, Allied London Properties, has also retained Capita Symonds in a monitoring/due diligence capacity on two buildings where they are not leading the structural design.
Heralded as ‘Manchester’s Canary Wharf’, the 22 acre development features high quality commercial, civic, residential, hotel, leisure and retail space including:
- 20 signature buildings - each one the result of a competition between leading international architects
- 4.6 million sq ft of high quality commercial, civic, residential, retail and open space
- Six acres of public space
- Five new public squares
- 2.37 million sq ft of Class A office space (25,000 workers will eventually occupy the site)
- 300,000 sq ft of complementary high-end retail and leisure areas
- 391 luxury apartments in the Left Bank complex
- A 24 floor complex featuring a four star hotel and luxury apartments
Kevin Mitchell, Capita Symonds, commented: “Spinningfields will set new standards for modern international city regeneration. The whole project has been designed, planned and implemented to create a development that will be the envy of London and the rest of Europe.”
Manchester is the UK’s fastest growing city. Since 1997, more than £700 million has been invested in transforming the city into one of Europe’s leading cultural and economic hubs with over £3 billion committed to major new real estate and infrastructure projects.
