New images show how ageing corner of Greater Manchester will be transformed in £60m scheme

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New images show how an ageing corner of the city centre will be transformed into a laboratory building. The £60 million project, which gets started later this summer, will add 131,000 sq ft of labs space to the Manchester Science Park.

Currently, the site between Greenheys Lane and Pencroft Way is home to the Greenheys building, two terraced houses — one of which is a takeaway — a University furniture store and a car park.

Once complete, Greenheys, as it will be known, will house firms that specialise in diagnostics, genomics, biotech, and precision medicine.

UK Biobank will be the anchor tenant and will use the building as its headquarters. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. “The redevelopment of Greenheys is one of the most forward thinking, creative building projects in the scitech industry in the North,” Gary Wilde, Architect Director from developers BDP, said. “With more emphasis on innovation and life sciences in the region, the ability to design this new building which optimises use of the existing site to deliver flexible laboratory spaces shows that we are designing for a prosperous future.