Pall Mall in Manchester mixed-use transformation plans lodged by Bruntwood Works

13 June 2022

Bruntwood Works has submitted a planning application to redesign and revitalise the grade II-listed Pall Mall in Manchester city centre.

The property, on King Street, will include 85,000 sq ft of office and hospitality space across three blocks and was acquired by Bruntwood in October 2021.

Having sat mostly vacant for four years, the building will now become a sustainability and wellbeing hub as part of Bruntwood Works’ £200m Pioneer programme.

The programme creates vibrant, community and innovation focussed workspaces centred on six key pillars: biophilia, art, sustainability, wellness, amenity and technology. Neo, Blackfriars House, 111 Piccadilly, Bloc and The Alberton and are also part of the Pioneer scheme in Manchester.

The ground floor redesign will create a hospitality-style arrival experience for customers. The new entrance, located in the former main access point entrance on King Street, will also be repositioned to the centre of the building to create an outdoor piazza in a previously unused space.

A wellness studio and gym, cycle store, showers and changing area, towel service, drying room and ironing space are all planned.

Also included is a coffee shop, coworking lounge, a range of multi-functional meeting rooms, screening room, pitch and presentation area, conferencing pods and roof terrace.

Ciara Keeling, chief executive of Bruntwood Works, said: "This announcement marks a major milestone in our reinvention of the iconic Pall Mall building in the heart of the city centre. Complementing and bolstering our existing cluster of innovative and dynamic workspaces, it will become a unique sustainability hub that will allow us to help our consciously minded customers and the wider city to reach its Net Zero ambitions.

"Given the complexity of retrofitting of a listed building, we are aiming for our redevelopment of Pall Mall to provide a blueprint for projects in future, as this provides a more sustainable option than demolishing and building new."

The Pall Mall project team supporting developer Bruntwood Works includes architect Sheppard Robson, Ramboll as sustainability consultants, Deloitte as planning consultants, heritage consultant Stephen Levrant Heritage Architecture and structural engineers DWLLP.

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