Last mile logistics scheme for Manchester site
Ask Real Estate has acquired the final 7.8 acre plot at Manchester Business Park close to Manchester Airport, from ARC.
By Liza Helps, Property Editor, Logistics Matters
THE DEVELOPER plans to build a nine unit 1114,000 ft2 small to midbox scheme on the site ranging in size from 6,700 ft2 to 21,646 ft2 targeting BREEAM Excellent and an EPC A rating.
The development sits at Junction 5 of the M56 motorway alongside the £1bn MIX MANCHESTER development zone, for which a strategic regeneration framework has been approved to bring forward up to 2 million ft2 of advanced manufacturing space, R&D labs and office space as well as hotels, leisure facilities and public areas.
Ask Managing Director John Hughes said: “The South Manchester market is under supplied, particularly in the small to mid-sized sector of the logistics market. These new facilities will deliver much-needed space to complement the tech and R&D spaces being developed at MIX MANCHESTER.”
Ask will undertake a public consultation on its plans this autumn and aims to submit a planning application for the proposed development in Q4, with an aim to start on site next year and deliver by summer 2027.
