propErTy Galliford Try to build £80m NEC complex


Galliford Try has announced that it has been selected as Genting UK’s preferred con- tractor for the £80m Resorts World at Te NEC leisure and entertainment development. Te 55,000sq m (592,015sq


Te £100m LEEF is part of a wider mayoral drive


£100m fund to ‘green’ London’s buildings


London mayor Boris Johnson has revealed that hundreds of public buildings across the capital are to benefit from environmental upgrades through a new £100m fund. Investment will be made available as low-


cost loans towards green projects, which will include the installation of efficient lighting systems and boiler upgrades. Te new London Energy Efficiency Fund


(LEEF) is part of a wider drive by the mayor to retrofit London’s buildings and help lower carbon emissions from public build- ings, as well as reducing energy costs.


Downing unveils plans for new London development


A leisure centre and swimming pool is to form part of a new mixed-use develop- ment being proposed for Vauxhall, south London, by property group Downing. Designed by Feilden Clegg Bradley


Studios, the 32-storey tower will boast around 580 student bedrooms and will transform a site on South Lambeth Road. Under Downing’s proposals, the 20m


swimming pool will be visible through a glazed frontage onto South Lambeth Road, with it and 10,000sq ſt (929sq m) leisure centre open to the public.


Manchester development sale completed


Jones Lang LaSalle and Cortex have com- pleted the £20.1m sale of the mixed-use Circus complex in Manchester on behalf of LaSalle Investment Management. Te Circus currently includes a 228-bed-


room Premier Inn hotel and ground floor retail/leisure units, as well as a casino oper- ated by Genting Casinos UK. It has been acquired by Circus Invest. Located on the corner of Oxford Street


and Portland Street, the site was developed 11 years ago and features a JD Wetherspoons and a Barracuda Pub Company outlet.


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ft) complex is expected to feature a Genting-operated casino; a hotel; a spa; a ban- queting/conference centre; food/drink outlets and a multi-screen cinema. It is hoped that work will


commence during the first quarter of 2012, with Resorts World at Te NEC currently scheduled for completion during the first quarter of 2014. Galliford Try chief executive Greg Fitzgerald


Resorts World at the NEC is to be completed in the first quarter of 2014


said: “We are delighted to be selected as pre- ferred bidder for what will be one of the most


significant leisure and entertainment develop- ments to be built in the UK in recent years.” A large casino premises licence for the com- plex was secured by Genting UK in June.


WNC unveils new £5m arts centre


West Nottinghamshire College (WNC) has unveiled a new £5m creative arts centre – Create – as part of a wider programme to transform its Derby Road campus. The new arts venue isset


to offer performance, media, and music students with facil- ities including workshop and rehearsal space; a 150-seat performance theatre; and arts and dance studios. WNC is also hoping that


Create is to become a hub for local musicians, performers and touring companies, in addition to accommodating its students. Create is the first phase of a wider £24m


WNC’s new Create facility incorporates a 150-seat performance theatre


programme, which will see a series of devel- opments at the institution and the adoption of a new identity – Vision West Notts. Another phase was given the go ahead on 31 August, with Mansfield District Council


approving a new six-court sports hall; a sports science lab; a spectator area; and mod- ern changing facilities. Work is now set to start on the new sports


facility – to replace WNC’s existing gymnasium – in November, following the decision. Taylor Young are the architects for both schemes.


New public realm planned for Southampton


Southampton City Council has successfully secured £550,000 of funding towards the cre- ation of a newly-landscaped area of public realm outside the new Sea City Museum. Planning permission has been granted for the scheme, which will include landscaping


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works and visitor cycling storage provided ahead of the attraction’s opening next April. Forming part of a new Cultural Quarter for


Southampton, the Sea City Museum will fea- ture two permanent galleries and has been designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.


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