Australian tech firm moves into refurbished bank building

Australian technology company Safety Culture has moved into a 9000 sq ft suite at Bond, a refurbished 19th century bank building in Manchester city centre’s Mosley Street owned by Bruntwood SciTech.

Safety Culture’s digital workplace improvement platform is used by more than 70,000 organisations across the world and the move by the Sydney-headquartered business is another sign of the city centre’s growing tech community.

Bond building entrance on Mosley Street

The Grade II* listed Bond building at 38-42 Mosley Street, is a 28,000 sq ft space that has seen its Italian Palazzo style restored, including the double height banking hall which will soon host “a unique restaurant offering”.

The letting follows the company’s announcement earlier this month of half a billion pounds of additional investment being made into Bruntwood SciTech and the transfer of Bruntwood’s city centre portfolio into SciTech venture, a joint venture between Bruntwood, Legal & General and Greater Manchester Pension Fund, launched in 2018 as a joint venture between Bruntwood and Legal & General, Bruntwood SciTech recently announced.

Ciara Keeling, chief operating officer of Bruntwood SciTech, said: “In sympathetically refurbishing many of Bond’s original features and characteristics, we’ve also developed a space which seamlessly blends contemporary and Victorian styles into a workspace that is both unique and in keeping with the spirit of Manchester’s diverse built environment. It is testament to what can be achieved when we think ambitiously and creatively about how to restore and modernise Manchester city centre whilst meeting crucial sustainability targets.”

The site sits close to Bruntwood SciTech’s city centre workspaces, including Bloc, York House and Pall Mall. part of an estate that includes 21 city building and four science and technology campuses such as Circle Square and Manchester Science Park.

The project team responsible for restoring the building back to its former glory included architects AXI, Paul Butler Associates as planning and heritage consultant, and Hilson Moran as MEP and sustainability consultant.

The project’s retained agents are CBRE and OBI.