A New Neighbourhood for Enterprise , Culture & Living

A NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD FOR ENTERPRISE, CULTURE & LIVING Deals are done here. Clients are won here. Seeds are sowed. Lawns are mowed. The good folk come from far and wide. Inspired, hired and even fired. Twists and turns, lessons are learned. This is a place where people grow. Talented, creative, in-the-know. Art is made here. It’s influential. Families start here. There’s endless potential. Plays are performed. Bands are reformed. Here is where great coffee is brewed. Ideas are born and dreams pursued. WELCOME

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6 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 7 HELLO ...A NEW COMMUNITY, A PLACE THAT DISTINGUISHES ITSELF BY ITS UNIQUE CULTURAL HISTORY, DIVERSE MIX OF INHABITANTS, RICH CONTEXT AND ITS POSITION AT THE CROSSROADS OF ST. JOHN’S... A NETWORK.

PRINCIPLES

UTILISE THE LOCATION’S CHARACTER AND CONTEXT TO CREATE A PLACE WITH ITS OWN IDENTITY.

BUILD UP THE MODERN FROM THE FOUNDATIONS OF AN ICONIC HERITAGE, ENSURING A TRULY UNIQUE NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH AN EXCITING FUTURE.

OFFER SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE BY PROVIDING A RICHNESS OF DETAIL - FROM HIGH VIEWS TO LOW VIEWS, SKY TO VILLAGE, RETAIL TO RESTAURANTS, START-UPS TO ESTABLISHED BUSINESSES.

8 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 9 ALLIED LONDON IS WORKING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL AND CAREFULLY SELECTED CONSULTANTS AND PROFESSIONALS FOR WHAT IS ONE OF THE CITY’S MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS AND GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE NEXT DECADE.

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12 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 1 3 FIELDS, RIVERS & MONASTERIES, CANALS, FACTORY WAREHOUSES & RAILWAYS, CIVIC BUILDINGS, UNIVERSITIES & HOSPITALS, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS & ENGINES, WAR PRODUCTION, COMPUTING & FILM, MEDICAL, CHEMISTRY & MATERIALS, SCIENCE, ART, MUSIC & CULTURE

‘Cottonopolis’ – a view from Kersal Moor, 2.5 miles north west.

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CULTURE & HERITAGE

THE VISION BUILDS ON MANCHESTER’S HISTORY OF IDEAS, INVENTION AND INDUSTRY: A NEW CITY CENTRE NEIGHBOURHOOD FOR WORK, ART, MUSIC, FILM, CULTURE, MEDIA, “Cottonopolis” - ideas, production & connectivity “makes” the City: A place unlike any other TECHNOLOGY AND 6 FOR LIVING.

Manchester - the first industrialised City: Cultural Cultural Heritage Invents and reinvents ideas, systems & things Cottonopolis - ideas, production and connectivity ‘makes’ the city during the 19th Century.

Coronation Street is a British soap opera that was first broadcast on Granada Television on 9 December 1960.

1948 Manchester small scale experimental machine 3 computer, Manchester - the first industrialised city: invents and reinvents ideas, systems and things. Manchester University.

1948 Manchester small scale experimental machine 3 computer Manchester broadcasts to the world Manchester University Manchester Media City

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8 The ITV Estate - A unique 25-acre development site in central Manchester.

- Strategically located adjacent to Spinningfields; the city’s premier business district developed by Allied London since 2001 and now a thriving mixed-use, retail, office and leisure destination.

Prime Suspect

“We were part of a unique enterprise and were one of the most important factors in a cultural revolution. That alone would make working for Granada an exceptional experience, but it was much more to do with being based in Manchester and having that special point of view, which was different.”

Broadcaster and presenter, Sir Michael Parkinson on his early years at Granada, presenting Scene at 6.30, which featured the Beatles eleven times during the early 1960s.

Russel T Davies Coronation Street The Royle Family

Cracker World in Action VISIONARY

OUR MISSION

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SITE ANALYSIS RESONANT PLACE HERITAGE APPROACH TO THE SITE ITV ESTATE MASTERPLAN, MANCHESTER St John’s and neighbouring Castlefield is an area of 4 | John McAslan + Partners | St Johns Quarter Masterplan | Manchester Quays Ltd great historic significance. It’s Roman beginnings are overshadowed by the changes Manchester underwent to BRIEF become the world’s first modern metropolis. 1: THE VILLAGE The area reflects the impact of the key changes in transport, Area: 18,100m2 commerce, industry and entertainment which are preserved Includes the exsiting ITV studio, Bonded in both its architecture and infrastructure. It is an area - SITUATE A Warehouse and Headquaters Building. that represents Manchester at its best in terms of global Uses: Workspace, Studio Space, influence and is a touchstone for an approach to influential Residential, Leisure & Retail change in the future. The proposals to consider the area for World Heritage Status reflect the importance of the wider Castlefield neighbourhood. 2: THE CORE SITE NEW HIVE OF Area: 24,260m2 The major network of canal’s that characterise the area Uses: Residential & Amenities reflect the first transport revolution and the combination Target: 1250 new homes of tunnels and wharfs on the site offer the potential to inform the future public realm. The Liverpool Road Station 3: RIVERSIDE MANCHESTER represents the world’s first commercial passenger railway and the development of the area shows the influence 1 Area: 8590m2 of this had not only in terms of passengers but also the Use: Residential development of warehousing & distribution for the city region Target: 440 new homes 4 as a whole. 4 2 1 ACTIVITY 4: THE GLOBE & SIMPSON BUILDING The development of the site after 1945 reflects the rise of Area: the leisure and entertainment industries and the capacity for Manchester to challenge London’s position with a TV 2,500m2 (Solid line) provider that matched its BBC rival in its ability to both 3 3,800m2 (dotted line) inform and entertain. The legacy of the Coronation Street set as an icon of popular UK history can be put alongside 5: SITES C & D the triumphs of the industrial age in terms of its national Area: influence. - ST. JOHN’S 9,500m2 8,800m2 5 Use: Residential PRESAGES FUTURE Target: 800-900 new homes INNOVATION AND 5

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- Bring the site back into short-term Develop the public realm: Heritage vibrant use.

- Create a new mixed-use, residential- The site is made up of rich layers of ‘Urban Laminates’ St. John’s and neighbouring Castlefield is an Heritage Status reflect the importance of the site after 1945 reflects the rise of the leisure led city centre neighbourhood for and this will form the basis of the landscape response, area of great historic significance. Its Roman wider Castlefield neighbourhood. The major and entertainment industries and the capacity Manchester over the next 8 to 10 years. twisting, fracturing and overlapping to reveal itself as it beginnings are overshadowed by the changes network of canals that characterise the area for Manchester to challenge London’s Manchester underwent to become the world’s reflect the first transport revolution and the position with a TV provider that matched emerges in its new form. - Develop a best-in-class city centre first modern metropolis.The area reflects combination of tunnels and wharfs on the site its BBC rival in its ability to both inform and neighbourhood; a place to live, work This will drive a multi-level nature of the public realm the impact of the key changes in transport, offer the potential to inform the future public entertain. The legacy of the Coronation Street commerce, industry and entertainment which realm. The Liverpool Road Station represents set as an icon of popular UK history can be and play, a place for enterprise and from street level, to overhead elements, to sky gardens, are preserved in both its architecture and the world’s first commercial passenger put alongside the triumphs of the industrial innovation, for culture, entertainment that create texture, interest and activity. infrastructure. It is an area that represents railway and the development of the area age in terms of its national influence. and leisure; a unique proposition This achieves a diverse detail for St. John’s that can flux Manchester at its best in terms of global shows the influence this had, not only in terms for Manchester that will raise its and change throughout the place. St. John’s can become influence and is a touchstone for an approach of passengers, but also the development of international profile and set it apart the looking glass into the future of northern city life. to influential change in the future. The warehousing and distribution for the city and from its peer cities. proposals to consider the area for World region as a whole. The development of the

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NETWORK & ARTART The city centre, with the help of Manchester to create a distinctive new neighbourhood public spaces.COLLABORATE It also has the potential to City Council and Allied London, has that has the best of the city centre on connect areas of the city that have been repositioned itself as a desirable place to live, its doorstep. Building on the success of disconnected by previous site uses - Advertising Speaker’s Corner Corner work and play. With new home construction Spinningfields we can create something truly potentially opening up the waterfront as a slowing over the past five years, it is time to special here. new destination, improving connections to pick up the pace to meet demand. the MOSI and Spinningfields and building on Marketing + A site of this size has the ability to give Connectivity the energy of Deansgate and St. John’s. Recording The redevelopment of the ITV estate Manchester an inspirational neighbourhood presents a real opportunity on a fantastic site with high quality homes and significant

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1. Street life 2. Materials 3. Form 4. Ambience IAN SIMPSON ARCHITECTS MASTERPLAN

Street Life 1

2 Existing landscape Materials

Objectives / Aspiration FORM 3

We have created a holistic vision for the - New connections to the Museum of Science add life and terraced gardens to the village whole site that will provide a new city and Industry opening up the permeability in providing 24 hour, seven days a week life to centre neighbourhood with its own distinct the north-south direction across the site. the new city destination. character and sense of place. Whilst being a - A strong visual link to Spinningfields - An ordered series of tall residential new city destination its success will depend through the creation of a ‘gateway’ public buildings striding above the village that on the connections between the existing city space at the head of Quay Street. provide an elevated retreat for residents grain and the juxtaposition of the new and - Good sight lines to the river from the living above the city. The tall buildings relate old massing. The following key objectives 4 development. to both distant views of the city as well as Intimacy have driven our concept design of the existing local vistas and new views within the - The creation of a series of public masterplan: masterplan. landscaped spaces that support the new - Achieve, as a minimum, the brief network of routes and linkages as well as - The use of water to evoke the memory requirements for accommodation in the anchor the major buildings. of the former canal and to enhance the individual plots across the site to maximise connection to the river. - A scale of building form that in height and the commercial opportunity. plan extends the scale of St. John’s across - The creation of a new riverside place - Use as many of the existing buildings the site. built around the existing canal lock with a as possible, in particular the Bonded pedestrian bridge link across the River Irwell - The creation of a tight-grain village of Warehouse, the HQ Building, the Breeze, which will allow engagement with possible 4-5 storey building forms that extend over the Starlight Theatre and some of the studio future development. the site to the river. This provides flexible buildings. commercial studio space above a ground Our key aspiration is the creation of a new - The creation of a series of new routes and floor of retail for a range of mixed uses from neighbourhood that will be distinctly intimate connections across the site in particular from media companies to internet businesses as offering a range of spaces and atmospheres east to west; providing a strong link between well as designer-makers and artists. Above including landscaped squares, formal streets Deansgate through the site to the river. the studios a roof-scape of residential units and meandering alleyways.

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ALL EYES WERE ON THIS PLACE NOT THAT LONG AGO. THIS IS WHERE THE MAGIC HAPPENED, EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK. TAKE TWO. AND FOLK ARE WATCHING AGAIN AS THE FORMER SITE OF GRANADA TV IS BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE. THIS TIME THE CREATIVE AND THE DRIVEN WILL COME HERE TO LIVE WORK AND PLAY. INSPIRED BY THE PAST AND EXCITED BY THE FUTURE.

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Through the formation of small and large For the very first time Manchester will have workspace buildings and commercial a residential community to really cherish, workshops, retail units, cafés and studios, where work meets play, creativity promotes St. John’s offers a multitude of opportunity culture and enterprise drives innovation. for business success. CENTRAL OLD S T . VILLAGE GRANADA JOHN’S St. John’s will offer the essential elements St. John’s is a major opportunity for those PLACE to support a balance of work and wellbeing. STUDIOS makers, creators, designers and innovators Growth in many forms will be supported – with integrity, drive and ambition to from commercial success and education, to manufacture or collaborate on-site. self-discovery and starting a family.

ENTERPRISE CULTURE LIVING

The cultural ecology of St. John’s will evolve out of contemporary art, experiential entertainment, and interactive engagement. SOUTH S T . THE BONDED JOHN’S FACTORY Exciting venues, including The Factory will VILLAGE WAREHOUSE LIVING host the type of cutting-edge, practices that are the lifeblood of the creative industries: graphic design, music production, fashion, photography, print.

34 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 3 5 Welcome to an ever-evolving adventure that’s never been told before. A beautifully landscaped park, a network of intimate streets. Wonderful restaurants, cool little bars. Hi theres and how are you doings? Living up in the sky, studios down on the ground. A short walk to school, a stone’s throw from work. A river, a love story, a home.

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ST. JOHN’S INN ENTERPRISE OVA CITY TION

OPP The careful curation of entrepreneurs, leading-edge companies, artists, crafts ORTU people and educators is about to emerge. BONDED WAREHOUSE St. John’s will provide the resource and NITY infrastructure to meet the demands of SOUTH VILLAGE an ever diversifying and technologically CENTRAL VILLAGE enabled population. All within a single urban neighbourhood. OLD GRANADA STUDIOS

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INN ST.JOHN’S OVA CULTURE TION CITY

St. John’s will be a playground for imagination and inventiveness. Exciting, energising experiences will be carefully curated and played out in shops, restaurants, cafes, bars, breweries, bookshops, galleries and gyms. Shopping and eating here will have a distinctly AR independent, artisan flavour. Fashion will be quirky, modern, retro. THE FACTORY TS This will be a vibrant, productive neighbourhood for an enterprising OLD GRANADA STUDIOS community of thinkers, makers and doers. BREEZE STUDIOS A new chapter in Manchester’s radical CENTRAL VILLAGE history of creativity, enterprise and independent spirit. THE BONDED WAREHOUSE

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We are creating a new city centre community with its own distinct character and sense of place. St. John’s will be HO a unique way to live the Manchester experience. Imagine a place that stimulates the senses. A sanctuary, an oasis, a secure ME ST. JOHN’S PLACE home in the city – the place that enlivens SOUTH VILLAGE you. Light, aspect, serenity. Relax among a rich tapestry of alleyways and courtyards CENTRAL VILLAGE or choose to live in style, elevated over ST. JOHN’S LIVING Manchester’s captivating skyline.

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masterplan: 4 • A low-rise, mixed-use village that 1 LOWER BYROM STREET 4. The Bonded Warehouse recreates Manchester’s narrow street grain and comprises workspace, studio 5 space, retail and leisure, interspersed with interconnected pockets of public realm and green space. MUSEUM OF SCIENCE • A series of elegant residential towers INDUSTRY that float over the village, located on MOSI the west of the site towards the river. 5. The Factory

• St. John’s will become a major LIVERPOOL ROAD new cultural venue within the neighbourhood, significantly enhancing the attractiveness of the scheme to potential residents and occupiers, creating a distinctive sense of place,

and contributing towards the vitality of 6. St. John’s Living the area. CASTLEIELD • This cultural venue would generate footfall, extend dwell time and contribute towards the identification 8 of St. John’s as a new city centre destination. 8 These elements are built around the 7. St. John’s Place retention of many of the existing heritage assets on the site, including:

- the Bonded Warehouse;

- the HQ Building;

- the reutilisation of some of the studios and soundstages for music, theatre and leisure, creating a holistic 8. Trinity Islands cultural destination. OXORD ROAD PICCADILLY

46 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 4 7 ...that stimulates the senses.

A place where handball is chalked on communal barbecues clutter the the pavement and children’s laughter courtyards, and the smell of a freshly fills the air, the outdoor gym resides made cappuccino beckons you to the next door to the joiners workshop, a plug in office...... that’s where I would like large mature tree marks the centre to go. of the community, street theatre and

IMAGINE A PLACE...

...that utilises all available space from pavement level to sky garden.

The public realm should be multi- realm and frontages interact, always levelled and overlapping, drawing adding something new. This is overlaid from St. John’s urban laminates. This by structures and pop-ups that provide approach will make the space work hard shelter for activity, destinations, features for residents, businesses and visitors that create artistic ceilings to streets using every nook, plane and level. The and under crofts, sprawling foliage street scene will have a richness of from balconies and soaring sky gardens detail and experience where public above.

48 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 4 9 The public realm creates an environment orientated around people allowing communities to thrive.

50 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 5 1 ...PROMOTING A MULTI LAYERED STREETSCAPE THAT STIMULATES ACTIVITY AND VITALITY

LAMINATING THE PUBLIC REALM CREATES A PLACE THAT IS DIVERSE, DISTINCTIVE AND UNIQUE...

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PARKS & GARDENS

A large urban park set against the backdrop of the River Irwell provides a vital green resource for St. John’s and the city.

Contoured levels and sculptural terraces create a sunken garden with informal seating areas for spectating/relaxing.

Large green spaces provide areas for activity and recreation, and tree grids afford shelter from prevailing winds.

The retained Breeze Studio gardens offers an intimate, quiet retreat for reflection and contemplation, open to all as a new managed public green space.

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Public and semi-public pocket parks for impromptu community happenings, relaxing, ping pong, chess and horticulture.

Sky gardens

Private green terraces, balconies, roof gardens; greening up of the city at different levels and scale to create a three dimensional patchwork green quilt.

Existing green spaces

Reinvigorating existing public spaces and incorporating them into the urban grain.

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Capturing what’s unique about St. John’s…

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SOUTH VILLAGE

SOUTH VILLAGE WILL CREATE A NEW RESIDENTIAL VILLAGE AT THE HEART OF THE ST. JOHN’S NEIGHBOURHOOD, A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF SMALL BUILDINGS PROVIDING AN INTIMATE MIX OF BESPOKE APARTMENTS, SHOPPING, CAFÉS, RESTAURANTS AND WORKSPACES.

South Village is set within a beautiful mews type environment with a combination of public and private spaces, forming an enviable place to call home.

Connected by bridges, the South Village apartments are designed to provide a lifestyle. They carry features that would usually be found in a house rather than an apartment. Expansive living areas, utility rooms, working walls and island kitchens, outside rooms and gardens all combine to create a different type of apartment, a home, a lifestyle, and an investment that suits multi-generational living. The communal garden terraces and balconies are a bold feature of South Village and a strict management strategy will be adopted to ensure they are properly used and maintained at all times.

62 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 6 3 St. John’s is connected to the surrounding city through its strong primary routes, and is articulated internally by a series of corridors that accommodate movement, activity and commerce.

New intimate squares create a canvas for urban theatre and spaces for expression, interaction and inspiration.

The retention and creation of two new significant green areas are important to the continuation and setting of St. John’s Gardens.

St. John’s Place will sit in its own garden, and the area in front of The Factory will form a key link to the river from the rest of St. John’s.

SQUARES URBAN BLOCKS PROVIDE ENCLOSURE TO THE STREETS OF & STREETS THE CORE

RIVERSIDE ACTIVE ACCOMMODATES FRONTAGES HIGH-RISE ENSURE BLOCKS VIBRANT FRONTING THE STREETLIFE IRWELL AND FRAMING VIEWS TO SALFORD

TREES LINE CARS, CYCLISTS THE TWO AND PEDESTRIANS KEY STREETS ARE SEPARATED CROSSING BUT SHARE THE THE SITE SAME SURFACE

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CENTRAL VILLAGE

LOW-RISE, MIXED-USE VILLAGES THAT RECREATE MANCHESTER’S NARROW STREET GRAIN AND COMPRISE WORKSPACE, RETAIL AND LEISURE, INTERSPERSED WITH INTERCONNECTED POCKETS OF PUBLIC REALM AND GREEN SPACE.

The fundamental premise of St. John’s is the creation of the Villages on the site of the former Coronation Street lot and former ITV car park. This is the key piece to the new development. It will form the core, making vibrant streets and forging an amazing place to live in the city.

66 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 6 7 DWELLINGS VIEW ACTIVE FRONTAGE SHARED SURFACES DIRECTLY ONTO THE TO THE STREET. WITH PRIORITY FOR STREET HELPING PEDESTRIANS AND FOSTER COMMUNITY CYCLISTS. AND SECURITY.

HIGH QUALITY CONNECTION TO MOSI PUBLIC REALM. AND THE CULTURAL/ ENTERTAINMENT NEIGHBOURHOOD.

ALLEYWAYS & COURTYARDS

The heart of the new St. John’s community nestles amongst narrow, intimate alleys and courtyards.

Tight-knit streets within the Villages are brought to life with vertical greenery, window boxes, climbers and vines. Focal spaces are clearly defined and celebrated with changing textures and historical references.

Small cafés spill onto the public realm, and small squares provide inspiration and backdrop for street performances and impromptu entertainment.

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OLD GRANADA STUDIOS

THE VISION FOR OLD GRANADA STUDIOS HAS BEEN CRAFTED AROUND INNOVATIVE INDUSTRY, CREATIVE INVENTION AND ABOVE ALL, A PASSION FOR IDEAS.

Building upon a fantastic cultural heritage, this big successes. It is a vital component for the will be a world-class place to enjoy growing, St. John’s neighbourhood to really thrive as learning, and developing. Existing studios 2, 6 a prosperous and harmonious community. and 12 are being retained and reconfigured to OGS, particularly with its unique heritage, will form a suite of spaces for art, cultural, music be front and centre in actively achieving this’’ and performance. Alongside events such as Michael Ingall, Allied London. exhibitions, screenings and workshops, the studios will play host to pioneering physical and digital experiences for audiences across art forms and popular culture.

Whilst working and creating space is essential, the arts will take centre stage here. Other enriching experiences will also be carefully curated and played out across shops, restaurants, cafes, bars and hotels.

The studios will link to the hotel and other venues by a new covered retail arcade. While a new, more sympathetic structure will replace the adjacent lower four storey office extension with contemporary workspace and additional hotel amenity.

‘’ Creating and encouraging a diverse and sustainable culture needs to be one of our

ST. JOHN’S | 7 1 Right here, on the former site of Granada TV, the Beatles performed to camera for the very first time. That was 54 years ago. Yet the creative spirit that saw Granada become one of the UK’s most successful production houses, has never left this place. Now, something remarkable is happening again. A neighbourhood like no other is about to rise up. Inspired by the past and excited by the future.

BANDS & BEDROOMS

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THE BONDED WAREHOUSE

BOUNDED BY THE NEARBY RIVER IRWELL AND THE CASTLEFIELD CONSERVATION AREA, THE BONDED WAREHOUSE IS NOT ONLY A KEY FEATURE OF THE ST. JOHN’S ESTATE. BUT ALSO, AN ESSENTIAL MANCHESTER BUILDING. ONE THAT WAS, AND ONE THAT WILL BECOME, ONCE AGAIN, A CLASSIC.

Our refurbishment, by preserving the historical is because creative people like proximity. The features, will embody aspects of heritage, closer they are to one another, the easier it is to enterprise and innovation. share ideas and pass on knowledge, to network and to stay inspired. Loft style modern-spec. workspace sits comfortably alongside the kind of retail, restaurants and leisure that flourish and prosper in creative neighbourhood environments.

The butcher, the baker and, quite possibly, the candlestick maker will all play their part. Shopping and eating here will have a distinctly independent, artisan flavour. Fashion will be quirky, modern, retro. Art will be around every corner.

Working adjacencies are to be curated so that businesses can be clustered around economic opportunity and so that the prospect of networking is optimised.

The Bonded Warehouse will be a close-knit eco-system in the city centre resonating with forward-thinkers, living, working and playing. This

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The butcher, the baker and, quite possibly, the candlestick maker will all play their part in the St. John’s adventure.

Shopping and eating here will have a distinctly independent, artisan flavour. Fashion will be quirky, modern, retro. Art will be around every corner. Three hotels will accommodate different tastes, from corporate to contemporary. The entire neighbourhood will be punctuated by the kinds of businesses that prosper in social environments. The kind that will make St. John’s a pocket of prolific growth and economic opportunity.

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THE FACTORY

THIS CITY HAS A CULTURAL REPUTATION THAT IS FIRST RATE. FIRST CLASS. SECOND TO NONE. SECOND TO NOWHERE.

The Factory, a crucial catalyst for cultural the UK today. The Factory’s audience will be enterprise and production within the St. John’s younger, more diverse and more reflective of masterplan, will raise this bar. An exciting part contemporary Manchester, of a modern world. of this dynamic is our commitment to becoming Alongside the compelling artistic and cultural the ongoing home and host to the Manchester benefits, the Factory will also offer significant International Festival. opportunities for employment, skills educational A truly striking venue, the vision for the Factory development. is being realised, over 130,000 sq ft, through the extraordinary architectural ingenuity of world- beating design practice, OMA.

Ingeniously configured along the steel bridge and the viaduct at the south west of the site, The Factory has large scale, variable occupancy spaces that can readily accommodate performances ranging from touring theatre shows to the unique, multi-dimensional, avant- garde productions staged by the MIF.

Through both this exceptional production capacity and technical sophistication, programmes will be presented all year-round for innovative contemporary work and creative partnerships.

We are committed to attracting a broader demographic than the one that typically attends concert halls, theatres and opera houses in

78 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 7 9 Part of a wider master plan for St. John’s to deliver a cultural enterprise and production district, it will be a seismic catalyst for beneficial economic and social change. It will drive economic growth by retaining creative talent and clustering creative industry, digital and HE partners around the facility to shift the arts ecology in England, producing new work that will enhance the UK’s cultural reputation and output.

Exciting venues, including The Factory will host the type of cutting-edge, practices that are the lifeblood of the creative industries: graphic design, music production, fashion, photography and print.

CREATIVITY & INNOVATION

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I WANT TO LIVE HERE!

ST. JOHN’S LIVING

ST. JOHN’S WILL BE A PLACE THAT FEELS LIKE HOME. A NEW KIND OF NEIGHBOURHOOD, NEW TO MANCHESTER, NEW TO THE UK, NEW TO EUROPE.

A place where the world is on your doorstep. And where knowing your neighbours is as normal as previewing a world-class theatre production.

Effortlessly blending the very best of traditions old and new. Old-fashioned values mix with forward-thinking technology. Taking time for tea and to talk. Time to experience new ideas and advancements within the heart of our enterprise zone, Enterprise City, a platform for technology, media and creative industries. St. John’s will feel like a place of organic discovery and ease.

82 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 8 3 Super smart start ups, leading-edge companies, artists, crafts people and educators will all play their part in the St. John’s adventure.

Life at St. John’s will offer balance. A place where you can walk to work, pop around the corner for a coffee and a newspaper, a community where people know your name, and where there’s always a seat at your favourite restaurant.

St. John’s will support the growth of families and family life; something that is integral to everyone in many different ways and many different forms – from parents and children to friends and colleagues.

LIVING & LIFESTYLE

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ST. JOHN’S PLACE

INFLUENCED BY EARLY TOWER BUILDINGS, ST. JOHN’S PLACE IS DESIGNED AS AN ELEGANT, CLASSIC TOWER, ITS FORM AND SHAPE, SIMPLE; ITS LOOK, TIMELESS; AND ITS MATERIALS, TRADITIONAL.

Its interiors, a series of natural materials, will all intimate, quiet retreat for reflection and be classic traditional fine building materials. We contemplation. These are the important areas, are making homes, we are creating a place to live they make the difference to your lifestyle, as for the future, but we are doing it a traditional will the dedicated concierge service we will way, in a way that people will value and see the supply, we will even look after your dog while quality and effort that’s gone into making their you go to work. new home. We want these homes in the Sky to be multi-generational, we want this home to be passed on to generations, it’s something you can collect and keep, as it’s something you will invest in out of choice such is the quality of every part of it.

St. John’s tallest tower will contain a 110 room Nadler Hotel. Nadler are a smart-luxury boutique hotel from London’s Soho district and are regarded as having the best suite of hotels in London. Nadler are rated in the top 12 of all London hotels, and we are proud to welcome them to the first 10 floors of St John’s Place.

Sitting above are several floors of amenity - cafés, restaurants, health and wellbeing facilities, meeting areas, as well as rooms and spaces, exclusively for St. John’s Place residents. Below sits the garden, beautiful green space for an

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‘Innovation districts have the unique potential to spur productive, inclusive and sustainable economic development. They provide a strong foundation for the creation and expansion of firms and jobs by helping companies, entrepreneurs, universities, researchers and investors—across sectors and disciplines—co- invent and co-produce new discoveries for the market.’

Innovation Districts: A New Geography of Innovation in America

Bruce Katz and Julie Wagner

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TRINITY ISLANDS

SMART, CONTEMPORARY LIVING IN THE CITY THAT CREATES A DISTINCT COMMUNITY WITHIN ONE STRUCTURE.

A self-contained community will be built within these two sites. The development will be called Trinity Islands, and it will be a community that can flourish both economically and sustainably, yet contain all the features of city living within one structure: places to live, shop, work, play and eat as well as ‘green’ space.

The development will consist of 1,200 homes within six interconnecting towers across both sites, with ground floor uses being predominantly for residents including storage, cycle sheds, convenience shopping, showrooms and restaurants fronting the river.

Residents will enter on foot (or by vehicle) into a central core on both sites that will immediately take them to their apartments or to a fully landscaped podium on which there will be a variety of community uses. At this stage, these could include medical, health, education or workspace.

90 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 9 1 THE FUTURE Work to deliver the St. John’s development is due to commence on site in mid-2016. It will be phased in a manner that allows the completion of ‘clusters’, each of which will comprise all the necessary amenity of public realm, retail facilities, access and egress and will be totally separated from subsequent development phases.

Programme and Phasing

The initial phase will consist of South Village and the refurbishment of the Bonded Warehouse, both due for completion by late 2017 to early 2018. Access to and egress from these two developments will be from Lower Byrom Street and Atherton Street.

Old Granada Studios will form a separate Phase 1: 2016 - 2018 Phase 2: 2016 - 2018 Phase 3: 2017 - 2019 cluster during the same timeframe that will, on completion, provide a link to and from South Village from Atherton Street and Quay Street.

St. John’s Place is due for completion at the end of 2018, while work on the adjacent St. John’s Living cluster will likely run from 2017 to 2019. Both sites will be accessed from Quay Street and an upgraded Water Street.

The overall St. John’s development will therefore be significantly developed by 2019, with the remaining sites phased to suit both demand and logistics. Undeveloped sites will be appropriated for temporary public realm to provide further amenity until developed and minimise later disruption.

Phase 4: 2018 - 2020 Phase 5: 2019 - 2022

94 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 9 5 The public realm and its laminates will be organised by a hierarchy of landscape components that define the character and function of the place.

96 | ST. JOHN’S ST. JOHN’S | 9 7 “ART HAS THE POWER TO ENRICH LIVES, ENHANCE WELLBEING AND BOOST THE ECONOMY. WE WANT TO BUILD A PROUD NEW COMMUNITY FOR MANCHESTER, WE WANT

TO MAKE A LASTING A NEW NEIGHBOURHOOD FOR ENTERPRISE, CULTURE & LIVING DIFFERENCE, WE WANT TO DO IT IN PRINCIPLED WAYS, WE WANT TO INVOLVE AS MANY POSITIVE VOICES AS WE CAN AND WE WANT TO DO IT WELL.”

Michael Ingall, Chief Executive, Allied London

Design: 90 Degrees Design & Marketing. www.90degrees.com. 0161 833 1890. July 2016.

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