City to expand presence at MIPIM
THE Manchester at MIPIM partnership has unveiled new plans to significantly expand the city’s presence at the international property event in 2017.
Held last night (Thursday) in KPMG’s offices at One St. Peter’s Square, the Manchester at MIPIM 2017 launch welcomed an audience of senior property professionals to hear how the city will be transforming its approach at Cannes next March.
Manchester exhibits annually at MIPIM, the world’s leading property market held annually in Cannes, France. The global event brings together the most influential players from all international property sectors, offering unrivalled access to promote the city-region to the greatest number of development projects and sources of investment worldwide.
The gathering was crowd were told that Manchester’s ambitions have grown, and as such a step change would be needed for 2017.
The partnership will now be occupying an entirely new venue for 2017. Situated on the famous Cannes Croisette, the Manchester Pavilion will offer more space, longer availability and better facilities than the city-region has ever had before at MIPIM.
The new location will place Manchester next door to London’s well-established and widely-recognised Pavilion, and alongside leading European cities Paris and St Petersburg.
Providing 5,000 sq ft of covered space plus a 58.5m long terrace, the Manchester Pavilion will more than double the amount of room Manchester has historically worked with.
Sheona Southern, managing director of Marketing Manchester said: “The Manchester city-region has a long and successful history with MIPIM. We first exhibited in 2000, and since then have grown our presence steadily along with the event. Today, MIPIM is a staple of the property event calendar, and the Manchester partnership is one of their most prominent exhibitors.
“Last year saw the largest Manchester partnership yet, with 99 organisations and over 200 delegates, making Manchester the second largest delegation out of 550 global cities attending.
“However the Manchester partnership is much too ambitious to stop there, and it’s with continued growth in mind that today we announce bold new plans for Manchester at MIPIM 2017.
“The Manchester Pavilion is a fantastic opportunity for the partnership, and will form a critical new step in building on our presence at MIPIM, furthering the work we do with the private sector to position the Manchester Growth Strategy firmly on an international platform.”
Manchester at MIPIM is a private sector focused partnership, strategically led by Manchester City Council and coordinated by Marketing Manchester, with the aim of promoting the Manchester city-region to an international audience of property professionals.
