Manchester City Centre: Focus – St John’s Place

St. John’s Place is one of the first phases at St. John’s. Situated on a key gateway entrance into Manchester City Centre and benefiting from an impressive vista down Quay Street, where the city’s main new office tower Number 1 Spinningfields, is being developed.

St. John’s Place offers the most exciting regional residential development opportunity to come to the market.  Next door to Spinningfields, the site has easy access to the surrounding leisure, commercial and cultural amenities.

Allied London, the award-winning UK developer, working in partnership with Manchester City Council, are seeking a funding partner to facilitate the delivery of St. John’s Place, a new development comprising 350 residential units, a 150-bed hotel, new commercial space and riverside leisure and dining.

The focal point is No. 1 St. John’s Place, a 36 storey tower, known as the ‘North Tower’, which will sit at a key gateway entrance into St. John’s and Spinningfields and is set to be the prime residential address in Manchester.

The development forms part of a wider ‘phase 1’ which includes; ‘The Village’, a live/work development fronting St. John’s Gardens, the creation of the Bonded Warehouse, a new multi-use destination, the conversion of the former ITV HQ complex into an event hotel called ‘Manchester Grande’, and the opening of the ‘Starlight Theatre’, a new entertainment venue.

St. John’s is covered by the St. John’s Strategic Regeneration Framework which has been submitted to Manchester City Council.

The document outlines the creation of the new St. John’s neighbourhood, an area for enterprise, art, culture and living.

Whilst mixed-use, it will be Manchester’s first city centre residential community. The masterplan is predicated on ground floor activity and focuses on the creation of high quality public realm and legitimate open spaces.

Allied London and Manchester City Council have instructed leading Manchester-based Ian Simpson Architects, together with London practices Levitt Bernstein, Buckley Gray Yeoman and others. The successful party will be able to influence this design prior to submission for detailed planning permission.