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The Peel Group is a British infrastructure and property investment business, based in Manchester. In 2022, its Peel Land and Property estate extends to 13 million square feet (1.2 km 2) of buildings, and over 33,000 acres (13,000 ha) of land and water. Peel retains minority stakes in its former ports business and MediaCityUK. [6] [7] [8] [5]
Many of these office jobs are based in Manchester city centre and Salford Quays. Greater Manchester is home to various companies which operate in the United Kingdom or further afield in Europe and around the world. The city has a highly diversified economy and is a centre for cultural industries, retail, transport, logistics, financial, legal ...
The idea for MediaCityUK began in 2004 when BBC announced that it was interested in moving hundreds of jobs away from London to another UK city. [3] The Peel Group was involved from the early stages of this move, which resulted in announcing the construction of a 200-acre development in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester.
[11] [12] An initial list of 18 sites was narrowed to a short-list of four during 2005, two in Manchester – one at Quay Street, close to Granada Studios, and one on Whitworth Street and two in Salford – one close to the Manchester Arena and one at Pier 9 on Salford Quays. [13] The site at Salford Quays was chosen in June 2006, and the move ...
X1 Michigan Towers is a residential development under construction in Salford Quays, Greater Manchester, England.When fully built, the scheme will comprise just over 1,300 homes across a cluster of four buildings ranging from 14 to 46 storeys.
Port Salford is a freight terminal on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester, England, 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Manchester city centre. The port is part of the Atlantic Gateway project and its construction was led by Peel Ports, a subsidiary of the Peel Group , and was opened in 2016.
John Whittaker's Peel Holdings helicopter (G-PACO) lands at Princes Quay, Liverpool) John Whittaker (born 14 March 1942) is a British billionaire. He is chairman of the Peel Group, a property business that mainly invests in North West England.
The area was rebranded as Salford Quays and redevelopment by Urban Waterside began in 1985 under the Salford Quays Development Plan. [1] Faced with major pollution issues from the quality of the water in the ship canal, dams were built to isolate the docks, after which water quality was improved by aerating it using a compressed air mixing system.