The saga of the former BBC site on Oxford Road continues with reports that property Company Bruntwood are interested in developing the site.
The land, currently being used as a car park, was bought by Manchester based Realty Estates from the BBC for around £10m who demolished the old studios and submitted plans for leisure facilities, offices, residential accommodation and retail units which would include a hotel and what it termed a civic space which could be used for exhibitions.
Now it appears as though Bruntwood, are interested in taking on the site which could form part of the investment in making the Oxford Road corridor the heart of Manchester’s technology centre with an unnamed director telling the Manchester Evening News that interest in the site ‘had rocketed after Chancellor George Osbourne made a pledge for the north west to be a global centre for science and innovation.’
Bruntwood, who own over one hundred properties in the city, would be keenly placed to develop the site, having already completed the redevelopment of Citylabs further down Oxford Road and owning half of Manchester Science Partnerships as well as buying Alderley Park research base last year.
