Piccadilly Place is a mixed-use development by The Carlyle Group and Argent .

One Piccadilly Place is the address of the landmark City Inn Hotel. Two Piccadilly Place is the new 55,000 sq ft headquarters for Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive. Together, Three and Four Piccadilly Place comprise 300,000 sq ft of new Grade A office space. The residential element is Five Piccadilly Place, ‘The Hub’, a development of 167 apartments.

25,000 sq ft of Ground Floor retail and leisure units are set around a privately managed piazza, which the offices and City Inn Hotel open directly onto.

At two Piccadilly Place there are 500 employees working within the development as well as the further 3,000 people set to occupy Three and Four Piccadilly Place. Add to this the 3,000 guests who stay at City Inn every month and the residents of The Hub's 167 apartments and you've got a brand new development full of life, vibrancy and atmosphere.

With a footfall of approximately 83,000 people passing through the adjacent Piccadilly Station each day and over 3.5 million pedestrians crossing over the Manchester Curve bridge every year, operators on the Ground Floor of Piccadilly Place are set to reap the benefits of Manchester's busiest transport interchange.

The award winning Piccadilly Place Estate Team comprises security, cleaning, management and reception. Our staff and concierge will be at hand to make things as simple as possible, whilst delivering the highest standard of customer care.

Manchester’s contemporary success builds on a history of business flair and endeavour. The first modern industrial city, today it is the largest regional economy in the UK, and home to a talent pool of over 100,000 students in four universities. Over a quarter of the workforce is educated to degree level.

The rebuilt Manchester city centre, with its state-of the-art glass and steel structures, interspersed with pleasant parks and fountains, illustrates just how far Manchester has come in its aim to be recognised as one of Europe's leading aspirational cities.v

2007 saw the launch of the Manchester International Festival - the world's first ever production of original new work.

Whether you are interested in music and the arts, sport and leisure, or tourism and heritage, Manchester has something to suit every social and recreational taste.

Piccadilly is a commercial office district and the preferred location to a number of prestigious financial and professional organisations, including the Bank of New York, HSBC, King Sturge, Allianz Insurance PLC, BDP Architects, and a range of public agencies.

By 2010, Piccadilly will have witnessed the completion of a £1.2 billion investment programme comprising residential, commercial and retail developments. With stewardship from the Piccadilly Partnership (an alliance of public and private sector businesses), the area is ever changing from its developing skyline to its diverse and cosmopolitan mix of ground floor occupiers.

Piccadilly offers a wide range of opportunities for the retail enthusiast. With a variety of shops, bars and restaurants, including stylish establishments such as Kro Piccadilly and the Sky Lounge at City Inn, as well as boutique hotels Malmaison and The Abode, Piccadilly has everything you need around the clock.

Constructed to the highest specification and currently the only building in Manchester to offer an excellent BREEAM rating. Three Piccadilly Place provides a sustainable workspace, panoramic views and detailed copper-clad external finishes to create an outstanding presence within thedevelopment.

Four Piccadilly Place provides large, efficient office accommodation with floorplates from 13,000 to 16,000 sq ft, over seven levels. In total it comprises 110,000 sq ft of new Grade A sustainable work space, with a BREEAM rating of 'Excellent' and over 10,000 sq ft of retail space on the ground floor.

Registered with the BRE, Four Piccadilly Place will be awarded a BREEAM 'Excellent' rating, the best possible for environmental performance. The independent rating is a measure of the development's design and operational efficiency. This includes carbon emissions, sustainable sourcing of construction materials, recycling, transport integration, water use and energy consumption.

Argent has become one of the property industry's biggest success stories over the last twenty years. During the 1990s, Argent developed more speculative offices than any other company in the UK and has become widely acknowledged as a leading practitioner in the city centre regeneration.

www.argentgroup.plc.uk

The Carlyle Group is one of the world's largest private equity firms. Carlyle combines global vision with local insight, relying on a top-flight team of more than 500 investment professionals.

www.thecarlylegroup.com

Lessor: The Carlyle Group Lansdowne House 57 Berkeley Square London W1J 6ER

Developer: Argent Group PLC 1 Piccadilly Gardens Manchester M1 1RG Tel: 0161 236 1878

Contractor: Carillion Building 24 Birch Street Wolverhampton West Midlands WV1 4HY

Employer’s Agent: Faithful and Gould 4th Floor The Axis 10 Holliday Street Birmingham B1 1TF

Concept Architect: Austin:Smith-Lord 4 Jordan Street Manchester M15 4PY

Detail Architect: Weedon Partnership Quadrant Court 47-48 Calthorpe Road Edgbaston Birmingham B15 1TH

Services Engineer: Hoare Lea Auchinleck House, Five Ways Broad Street Birmingham B15 1DP

Office Agents: GVA Grimley 81 Fountain Street Manchester M2 2EE Simon Reynolds Chris Cheap Tel: 0161 834 7187
Savills Fountain Court 68 Fountain Street Manchester M2 2FE Patrick Joynson James Evans Tel: 0161 236 8644