Manchester Fort Retail Park
Innovative, radical new model combining community 'pay-and-play' commercial sport and leisure and integrating it into established retail - a “UK First” brand.
Project
Manchester Fort, Manchester
Client
TH Real Estate
Services
Architectural design, masterplanning and sports and leisure consultancy
This feasibility study seeks to evolve a pure retail scheme into a real mixed use community where visitors and residents can live, work, shop and play. Branded by LK2 as the “SportsLab” initiative, retail, leisure and entertainment uses are supplemented by the addition of an exemplar multi-sport and community hub with a unique blend of community and “pay-and-play” commercial sport and leisure.
As the only architects in the UK working at a strategic level via the FA/Football Foundation and Sport England Frameworks and utilising sport and leisure as a development enabler, LK2 have been able to create a unique UK-First brand with the sport and community uses generating significant grant funding and political leverage for additional commercial uses.
The introduction of “verticality” by building over the existing and new ground floor uses with a new community neighbourhood of residential, hotel, office and education uses