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AFTER working eight years of work on the 33-acre Waterfold business park, in Bury, for eight years, developers Seddon say the é50m scheme is now complete.
The 200,000 sq ft headquarters building for PC World was the first deal to be secured at the scheme in 1999 and was quickly followed by the De Vereés Village Hotel. Joint agents on Waterfold business park are Nolan Redshaw and King Sturge.

ANDREW Aherne has defected from Matthews & Goodman to join rivals Lambert Smith Hampton. He has been appointed to replace Gareth Middleton, who left in October to join Morley Estates. He Aherne will become head of industrial agency in charge of a team including Andrew Lynn and Alex Palfreyman.

ACTING on behalf of Royal London, office agents at Lambert Smith Hamptonés Manchester office have let a further floor at Kingés Court in Manchester city centre to consulting engineers Gifford & Partners. Gifford & Partners already occupies 3,304 sq ft on the third floor and has now taken a further 3,209 sq ft on the fourth by way of a 15 year lease with a break at the fifth and 10th tenth years at a rental level of é13.50 per sq ft Knight Frank represented Gifford & Partners.

A MANCHESTER firm of building surveying and project consultants has been ranked in the top 20 of the fastest growing consultancies in the UK as part of Building Magazineés annual national survey of the 250 top consultants. NP, based at The Boardwalk on Little Peter Street, was rated at position 17 in the fastest growing companies section of the prestigious annual industry survey with a growth in staff numbers of 40 per cent in Manchester and 34 per cent nationally over the past 12 months.

NABEEL Chowderyés Property Route has paid é4m for shops in at 61-69 Bryan House, Standishgate Wigan. Ground floor retailers including, Be-Wise, Ethel Austin and Planet Kids, producing a rental of é230,000 per annum. Rank Group Gaming Division occupies the first floor of the building and the upper floors are separately let to Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Primary Care Trust.

A FORMER pub company HQ has been given a new lease of life as a business centre. Bridgewater House Business Centre is the former HQ of the Devonshire Pub Company but has been given a é600,000 facelift by owners, the Hurstwood Group and transformed into an ultra modern centre é ideal for business in the 21st century.

THE newly created University of Cumbria which opens next summer which comes into operation in July 2007 - has submitted plans for its first new building, a flagship student centre. The é8.5m centre has been designed by north west based architects Wilson Mason and Partners and will be the focal point of the universityés Lancaster campus. Facilities include a éone-stopé shop, a catering outlet, office space as well as educational areas over 30,085 sq ft.

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