ELECTRIC SWITCH
Manchester Evening News|January 06, 2024
HUGE REDESIGN FOR CONTROVERSIAL CITY CENTRE OFFICE PARK
ETHAN DAVIES
ELECTRIC SWITCH

A CONTROVERSIAL office park set to be built has undergone a huge redesign more than a year after initial work started.

Electric Park, to be built on New Islington Green in the city centre, was set to be a campus of five new office buildings, three of them eight storeys high and two five storeys. It was also set to include two and a half acres of green space open to the public but the patch of grass around the tram stop it's built on provided four acres of greenery to residents.

At the time, residents were opposed to its building, with Manchester council leader Bev Craig saying she could not block construction because I don't own it'

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