This week we hear from Guest Relations Manager Collette Lynch about the new Media City site in Manchester.

Back in 2006 plans emerged that Manchester was to be the new home of the BBC. The BBC’s migration from London’s White City studios will see a two phase project that in total expands over a 200 acre site. The development is the base for a mixture of organisations and industries with the main tenants being media companies. Completion of the site is expected in 2016.

MediaCityUk’s main occupiers are the BBC who are expecting to employ 2,300 staff alone. Other companies are to include 40 service companies, one of which being the Satellite Information Services and institutions such as Salford University have taken advantage of the new age project by moving their media-related schools over to the site.

The land occupied by the site is part of the Port of Manchester in Salford Quays. The multimillion pound project has put Salford on the map earmarking the North’s every expanding economic development.

MediaCityUk is also on the same site as various theatres, galleries and museums. The Lowry Theatre was opened in 2000 by Queen Elizabeth 11 and is named after the early 20th Century artist, L.S Lowry, who was famous for depicting the gritty Northern industrial era of this time.

Experts are not only predicting economic, creative and social improvements for Greater Manchester but are certain that the project will also be a significant economic driver for the wider North.

Thanks Collette!

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