Media firm announced as first tenant at ABC development
The first tenant has signed up for the new ABC Buildings Development in Manchester City Centre.
Post production specialist the Farm Group will be one of the first companies to move into the development at the former Granada Studios site.
The company works on a wide variety of programmes including The Real Housewives Of Cheshire.
It also supplies the in-house gallery, technical, creative post production and management teams for BBC Sport and BBC Sports News.
The company has announced it will open a 25,000 sq ft facility at the studios which are part of Enterprise City.
The development is backed by Allied London’s and will offer a base for for creative, tech and digital industries.
Michael Ingall, Allied London’s chief executive, said: “We set up All Studios in 2017 to revive the iconic television studios at St. John’s, since then we’ve seen a huge demand for city-centre media facilities and we’ve welcomed the likes of BBC, Netflix and Amazon to the site.
“The Farm Group’s move to The ABC Buildings – one of our key media hubs at Enterprise City – is of massive significance for the cluster and growing proof that the North will be an international destination for content production and talent.”
“The media industry is expanding rapidly as online content companies like Netflix and Amazon continue to disrupt how we buy, stream and receive media content. Our vision for Enterprise City will support these evolving industries to continue to grow in both scale and importance.”
Paul Austin, managing director of Farm Manchester, said: “The news about the Farm setting up in Manchester created a real buzz and we had many clients that wanted to work with us, before the big launch in October.
“Riverside is perfect for us as it allows us to work with some of these clients and start to build up work that can carry on and finish in the new building.
“We have been blown away by the volume and quality of responses we have had so far, and the level of talent that want to work for the Farm in Manchester.
“As well as established industry leading local names, we are pleased that a lot of the approaches have come from new talent wanting to become the next big name, which fits exactly with what we want in terms of supporting and incubating the next generation of creative talent in the North West.”
