Giggs and Neville ‘plan major city centre scheme’

GREATER Manchester Police’s Bootle Street base could be redeveloped by Gary Neville, Ryan Giggs and the former Modus boss Brendan Flood.

According to PropertyWeek.com the three have formed a joint venture and are trying to unlock a 1.8-acre site that includes the police station and the neighbouring Manchester Reform Synagogue in Jackson’s Row.

Companies House documents show former Manchester United captain Neville, current player Giggs, and Brendan Flood are directors of Jacksons Row Developments which PropertyWeek says owns the synagogue. Modus, which collapsed during the recession, had an earlier plan to demolish the synagogue and redevelop it along with offices and flats.

GMP has been winding down operations at Bootle Street with many staff moving to the new headquarters building at Central Park in Newton Heath last year.

Property Week says the Greater Manchester Police Commissioner and the council are understood to be considering appointing a developer through European Union procurement rules, and have made no final decision. It suggests a mixed-use scheme could occupy the site of 12 to 14 storeys which would include a new synagogue and up to 400,000 sq ft of space.

Gary Neville is already active in the city centre having acquired the former stock exchange building in Norfolk Street earlier this year. Work is also underway at his 139-bed hotel project next to Manchester United’s Old Trafford Ground. Last year Giggs and Neville set up GG Hospitality which will run a hotel and a football-themed cafe at the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, east London.

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