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Leeds Dock hosts 2018 Waterfront Festival

Over 15,000 people turned out to attend the 11th annual Leeds Waterfront Festival in June, hosted at Leeds Dock. Central to the festivities were the Dragon Boat Races, in which 18 teams competed for the title to become Radio Aire Leeds Dock Dragon Boat Champion 2018. Team Konnect, who completed the course in just 52 seconds, were crowned champion for the third year running. It was a close race with less than 0.5 seconds between the winners and the runner up, Primal Gym, a leading gym based at the Dock.The festival also saw the return of the British Street Food [...]

Wallpaper* features Herbal House: historic printworks receives contemporary refurbishment

Herbal House is an iconic former printworks located in the heart of creative Clerkenwell. Allied London, together with Aerium, the European real estate fund manager, and Buckley Gray Yeoman, has restored the historic building and created a place for modern industries to thrive. The building’s industrial majesty has been showcased by Wallpaper* magazine in a photographic representation of the space.  Wallpaper* has previously partnered with Allied London on creative concepts for London Road Fire Station in Manchester and covered our vision for St. John's, Manchester's newest city centre neighbourhood. Herbal House is steeped in history and a space that has been the backdrop to many momentous [...]

Plans approved for landmark Old Granada Studios redevelopment

The iconic Old Granada Studios (OGS) – a key cultural and commercial asset within Allied London’s St. John’s masterplan – received revised planning consent from Manchester City Council on 21 May 2018. The revised application supports Allied London’s plans to retain and refurbish the original television studios, allowing new operational business All Studios to further flourish, as well as featuring new workspace elements.Allied London, Chief Executive, Michael Ingall commented: “This is a second consent for the building and is important as it will enable us to now realise our more defined and focussed plans to revive the former home of ITV [...]

Thought piece: St. John’s Collective – using innovation to inspire a community

A thought piece by Jonathan Raine, Corporate Director at Allied LondonThe St. John’s Collective started life two years ago as an orchestral project designed to bring a community together through a shared interest, using my background as a classical musician and composer as a key focus. The ‘community’ were the 30,000 people who work in Spinningfields, the business district which Allied London has spent the last 20 years carefully crafting. Although the initial take-up was very slow, the project caught the attention of Bob Riley, Chief Executive of Manchester Camerata.  Bob was seeking a new home for Camerata – who can [...]

Allied London is flying high with five award nominations

Allied London has been optimistically reflecting on the five prestigious award nominations it has recently received. These showcase the company’s abilities in a range of disciplines including commercial property development and digital design capability.Allied London is particularly proud that No.1 Spinningfields has been shortlisted for the Commercial Development of the year at the Insider North West Property Awards 2018. With a modern elegant design coupled with state-of-the-art business and hospitality facilities, the building (located at Manchester’s most enviable address) represents some of the best office space in Manchester and marks the completion of the Spinningfields development journey. This landmark location was also responsible [...]

Herbal House’s creative legacy continues with new tenants PhotoBox and IDEO

With an artistic and media focused past to be proud of, Herbal House provides an industrial backdrop for contemporary creatives to thrive. The latest companies to confirm a move to this iconic location will bring both a global presence and a dynamic outlook to Clerkenwell’s thriving design scene.PhotoBox Group, Europe’s leading digital consumer service for personalised products and gifts was the first to recognise the potential of Herbal House as an inspiring business location. With over 37,000 sq ft of space taken, the company whose brands include PhotoBox, Moonpig, Hofmann and posterXXL, has agreed a 10-year lease for the four [...]

Allied London expand Enterprise City: Launching ABC and new concept building at MIPIM

 Allied London have announced the expansion of Enterprise City at MIPIM this afternoon, with CEO Michael Ingall revealing plans for new project ABC – formerly Astley & Byrom house – focused at Film, TV, Media and Tech companies seeking a presence in Manchester city centre – also revealing ideas for a new concept building ‘Enterprise City Campus’.The former Astley and Byrom house building is to be re-adapted, refurbished and re-named as ABC. This cluster of three buildings will form an integral part of the Enterprise City community at St. John’s and are being focused at Film, TV, Media and Tech [...]

Standout in Spinningfields: the evolution of workspace over 2 decades

As the Spinningfields masterplan reaches completion, Allied London release two standout floors of workspace in the best-in-class No.1 Spinningfgfields building - surrounded by world class operators and the soon-to-be completed ‘The Field’, a new city-centre green space for Manchester.Since the proposal to create a new business district in 1997 by Michael Ingall, the estate has continuously evolved. Arrival of world class operators like D&D London and The Ivy have made Spinningfields a top dining destination in the UK, but it’s also attracted innovative and disruptive new tenants to set up offices in the area. World Class infrastructureNo.1 Spinningfields has already become a beacon [...]

Brunswick Centre named Best Place in UK & Ireland

The Brunswick Centre - Developed by Allied London - in London has been voted as the best place in the UK and Ireland at the 2018 Urbanism Awards. The centre fought off strong competition from fellow finalists Gaol Ferry Steps in Bristol and Roald Dahl Plass in Cardiff during a summer of assessment visits and subsequent vote by The Academy of Urbanism.The award is one of five given out each year by The Academy of Urbanism, a network of built environment experts from across Europe. They recognise Britain and Ireland’s best place, street, neighbourhood and town, as well as Europe’s best city.Voted on [...]

No.1 Spinningfields: Schroders Brings International Investment to Manchester

Allied London’s recently completed development, No 1 Spinningfields, has been acquired by clients of Schroder Real Estate for over £200 million, reflecting a net initial yield of 5%No.1 Spinningfields is the final piece of the Spinningfields masterplan, developed by Allied London in partnership with Manchester City Council. The building provides 310,000 sq ft of mixed use high quality accommodation with PWC the largest office occupier and  a new roof top restaurant let to D&D. The building was 87% pre-let prior to practical completion and is also the tallest commercial building to be constructed in Manchester in half a century.The Spinningfields [...]

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