OurCity. YourCity. MediaCityUK.

OurCity. YourCity.
MediaCityUK.
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The Vision
Welcome to MediaCityUK,
the new home for the BBC,
ITV, Coronation Street and
the University of Salford.
Located at Salford Quays on the banks of Manchester’s
historic ship canal, MediaCityUK features one of the
biggest HD studio complexes in Europe; 400 apartments;
a Holiday Inn and a brand new tram stop in the heart of a
spectacular five-acre piazza.
MediaCityUK
MediaCityUK has been designed around the specific
needs of the media and creative industries - our vision
is to become a world class hub for innovation and
content creation.
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The Benefits
A shared media infrastructure
for maximum flexibility.
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Purpose-built – de-risked technology
decision-making.
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Magnet for top talent – could potentially
accommodate 15,000 jobs (source: Amion Consulting).
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Buyers and sellers of services on site together.
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Flexible commercial model: fully managed
service, plug and play, tenancy.
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Businesses can focus on outputs and
audiences rather than wires and boxes.
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Phase One
Details of what’s being built
on the initial 36-acre site:
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Office space.
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Studios – seven HD and two audio.
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Space for bars, restaurants and shops,
including a Booths food store.
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378 apartments (divided between two towers).
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218 bed Holiday Inn hotel.
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Five-acre public realm area with a piazza
capable of holding more than 5,000 people.
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A technical infrastructure supported by
more than 20 million metres of fibre.
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Tram terminus, extending the current line.
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Foot bridge across the Manchester Ship Canal,
linking Salford Quays with Trafford Wharf.
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300 cycle bays.
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Multi-storey car park with approximately 2,200 spaces.
The initial site only represents one fifth of the total land
available – there’s potential to utilise up to 200 acres.
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1 BBC Offices
2 The Heart - Residential
3 Blue tower - Offices
4 Multi-storey car park
5 The Studios
6 Holiday Inn
7 White tower - Offices
8 Piazza
9 MediaCityUK Tram stop
10 Number One - Residential
11 Orange tower - ITV Offices
12 University of Salford
13 The Greenhouse
14 The Pie Factory
15 Lowry Outlet Mall
16 The Lowry
17 Quay West
18 Imperial War Museum North
19 Trafford Wharf - New home
for Coronation Street in 2012
20 Broadway
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MediaCityUK aerial view
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MediaCityUK piazza
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BBC – 2,300
staff from 2011
BBC North at MediaCityUK
will open in 2011, with more
than 2,300 staff working
across a range of output.
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In what will be the biggest move out of London in the
corporation’s history, BBC Breakfast, Children’s, Sport,
Radio 5 live, Learning, and parts of the Future, Media
and Technology team are all relocating to Salford –
bringing some of the BBC’s most famous shows, like
Match of the Day and Blue Peter, to MediaCityUK.
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The BBC’s current Manchester city centre operations
are also moving to Salford, meaning output such
as Dragon’s Den, File on 4, Radcliffe and Maconie,
Songs of Praise, Question of Sport, and local and
regional services will be produced at MediaCityUK.
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ITV is moving
to MediaCityUK
in 2012.
ITV is to build a bespoke production centre for
Coronation Street on Trafford Wharf next to Imperial
War Museum North, linked by a new bridge across
the canal to the rest of the MediaCityUK complex.
Dedicated offices have also been earmarked to house
ITV Studios’ production and management teams, ITV
regional news, and support staff across the business.
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ITV Studios produces over 700 hours of original
programming every year.
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ITV’s regional news team will broadcast live from a
dedicated studio within the Orange Tower.
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The new Coronation Street production centre
will include two sound stage buildings, specialist
production facilities and offices, dressing rooms and
meeting space for production staff and cast.
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Coronation Street is Britain’s longest-running soap,
celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2010.
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University
of Salford
An innovative new
centre at MediaCityUK
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The University of Salford will open a unique
digital learning, teaching and research space
covering more than 100,000 sq ft at the heart of
MediaCityUK. More than 1,500 students will be
able to take advantage of a learning experience
unlike that of any other university, at the heart
of the UK’s largest media development.
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Facilities will include:
• TV and radio studios
• digital media and performance labs
• post-production suites
• a living lab research facility
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Programmes include journalism, animation
and TV documentary-making, alongside
technology-based courses.
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Students will enjoy exceptional opportunities
to work with media professionals in a realistic
industry environment placing them in a prime
position for digital and media careers.
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Vision+Media
Vision+Media works on
behalf of the digital and
creative industries in the
north west to help grow
a world-class digital and
creative economy.
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The organisation attracts production to the region.
It also offers funding, access to finance, skills and
talent development to creative companies and
individuals working in TV, radio, music, games, film,
publishing and digital and creative services.
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Already a strong presence at MediaCityUK,
Vision+Media relocated to Salford Quays
in autumn 2009. The team are based in a
refurbished building opposite The Pie Factory.
Photography: Vishal Sharma
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Media
Enterprise
Centre
The Media Enterprise Centre (MEC) will help
stimulate and support the growth of the sector.
Individuals and businesses will be able to utilise
a range of resources at the MEC, including:
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Flexible office space.
Specialist training facilities.
Advice from sector development
agencies, including Vision+Media.
The MEC will also house: a centre of excellence for the
games industry; a research hub for the development and
application of new ideas; and a place where community
groups can learn new skills and create media content.
We’ve teamed up with our Public Sector
Partners (Salford City Council, the
Northwest Regional Development Agency,
and Central Salford URC) to develop a
place where creativity and innovation can
be nurtured and developed.
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Infrastructure
Capable of delivering
speeds of up to 10
gigabits, MediaCityUK’s
infrastructure will support
a whole range of different
activities, ranging from file
sharing to digital signage,
cloud computing to
building management. And
You won’t have a problem staying connected
at MediaCityUK – in phase one alone we’re
installing enough fibre to stretch from Salford
to Sydney.
MediaCityUK will be
connected to one of
the most advanced
communications networks
in the world, designed and
managed by BT Business.
The high capacity
network will cater for
the bandwidth-hungry
requirements of the media
industry, offering some
of the UK’s fastest data
and file transfer speeds.
More than 20 million
metres of optical fibre
will carry voice, data, high
and standard definition
video, and wireless
communications services.
We’ll also be connected
to global media and
broadcast networks.
the benefits aren’t limited
to work – if you’re living
in one of MediaCityUK’s
apartments you’ll have
access to the very latest
technology benefits,
including the fastest
residential broadband
speeds in the UK.
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Satellite Information
Services (SIS) is to
relocate its Londonbased production and
engineering operation to
MediaCityUK, making its
new home in Blue tower
next to the studio facilities.
One of the largest high definition
studio facilities in Europe, operated
in partnership with Satellite
Information Services.
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Live from January 2011.
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Located at the heart of MediaCityUK.
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Seven HD television studios – largest
12,500 sq ft; smallest 900 sq ft.
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Two audio studios (one dedicated to
the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra).
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Technical block featuring fully equipped
sound and vision control rooms; core post
facilities; CTA; dressing rooms; make-up;
workshops; set storage and green rooms.
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The new wayfinding
streetscape at MediaCityUK.
EQ
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BB NumberOne
HQ
BH BBC Offices
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EQ The Greenhouse
HE University of Salford
HF Orange Tower - ITV Offices
HQ The Studios
HT Holiday Inn
LH BBC Offices
NT White Tower
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The Stage
PF The Pie Factory
The Green
QH BBC Offices
ST Blue Tower
TG The Garage
TH TheHeart
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MediaCityUK Metrolink
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Broadway Metrolink
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Green
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The Lowry
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Pink
Yellow
Purple
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Broadway
Development plots
Waterway
Imperial War
Museum North
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Media Services
The studio complex
at MediaCityUK will
be complemented by
a portfolio of media
services, underpinned
by the latest technology
and communications.
MediaCityUK is an
environment where
content can be produced,
managed and distributed
digitally, supported
by an end-to-end HD,
file-based workflow.
The central technical
area (CTA) will provide
site-wide and external
connectivity, as well as
managing and controlling
all signals, data transfer
and communications
throughout the facilities.
Our ambition is to become a world class
hub for innovation and content creation.
A highly-trained operational
and customer services
team, will work round
the clock to deliver the
ultimate flexible approach.
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Producing
Content Now
TV and commercial production
has been taking place at The Pie
Factory, MediaCityUK, since 2007.
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Formerly a ‘Freshbake’ pie factory it is now a
production base with three sound stages, two large
open spaces, a 19m infinity cove, two make-up rooms
and green rooms.
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Recent productions include The Royle Family, The
Street and Paradox.
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Home to 25 ‘on the lot’ companies, offering services
such as kit hire and casting.
Courtesy of Equinox Film/TV Production Ltd
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Location
Living
Manchester city centre – a 15 minute
tram ride away – offers access to the
national rail network.
378 apartments in two towers,
both with stunning views.
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Two minutes from the motorway network.
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The new MediaCityUK tram stop will effectively double
the current frequency from this part of Salford Quays.
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Manchester Airport – a 20 minute drive – offers the
choice of more than 200 destinations worldwide.
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Studio, one, two and three bedroom apartments.
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Buy or rent.
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Fastest residential broadband in the UK.
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Destination
MediaCityUK is located at The Quays
– once home to Salford docks, now
an iconic waterside community.
We’ll have all the facilities you’d expect
from a 21st century city, including
shops, restaurants, cafés, bars, a
supermarket and medical services.
The Quays already attracts
millions of visitors each
year. The Lowry arts
centre – opened in 2000
– is Manchester’s most
popular tourist attraction.
The area is also home to
Old Trafford (Manchester
United’s football ground),
Imperial War Museum
North and Lancashire
County Cricket Club.
The new 218-bedroom Holiday Inn adjacent
to the MediaCityUK Studios, opened
for business in autumn 2010.
Family-run chain Booths - renowned for its emphasis
on local food produce - is to open a store at
MediaCityUK in 2011. Booths operates at 26 locations
across the north of England but the company’s
store here will be its first in Greater Manchester.
International brand Costa Coffee, the UK’s
number one coffee shop chain, (part of the
Whitbread family of brands), are to open a
new unit at MediaCityUK during 2011.
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Major routes to MediaCityUK.
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Imperial War
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Manchester
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The
Greenhouse
Wholesome, natural
home-grown work spaces
at the heart of MediaCityUK.
We’ve designed the ideal solution for smaller creative
companies to join the MediaCityUK community, with
a new office complex called The Greenhouse.
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Cost-effective, flexible leases from a month upwards.
Over three floors of self-contained office
suites accommodating up to 12 people.
Breakout space and meeting rooms
Dedicated on-site client manager
Short walk from new tram terminus
50 covered cycle bays
www.mediacityuk.co.uk/thegreenhouse
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Talent Pool
Manchester is already
acknowledged as a
leader in the creative
and digital industries.
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The city is home to the second largest creative
cluster in Europe, and a major centre for the
creative, digital and media industries.
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The north west’s creative and digital sector is
made up of more than 20,000 companies and
nearly 150,000 employees. What’s more, business
is booming – the sector saw an 88.5% growth in
productivity between 2002 and 2007 (source NWDA).
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There are almost 300 media courses on offer
to students at the 18 universities within 60
minutes drive of Manchester (source: MIDAS).
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Salford University offers courses in radio
and TV performance, animation, media
technology, computer and video games.
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There are nearly 15,000 students studying
computer science subjects at universities within
60 minutes drive of Manchester (source: MIDAS).
Photography: Vishal Sharma
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Green
Credentials
MediaCityUK is the world’s first BREEAM
approved sustainable community.
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Our trigeneration power plant will help minimise
CO2 emissions by centralising heating and cooling
equipment. It will utilise water from the Manchester
Ship Canal, before returning it cleaner than before.
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During construction we’ve used the ship canal to
transport materials, reducing the amount of emissionheavy motorway journeys by wagon.
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We want people travelling to MediaCityUK to use
public transport wherever possible. Salford Quays
is already served by Greater Manchester’s light rail
network, Metrolink, and MediaCityUK’s very own tram
terminus opened in 2010. We’re also installing 300
cycle bays at points across the site.
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About Us
MediaCityUK is being delivered by The
Peel Group – one of the largest property
and transport enterprises in the UK,
with an asset value in excess of £6bn.
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Other divisions of The Peel Group include: Peel
Land and Property; Peel Ports; Peel Airports; Peel
Leisure; Peel Environmental and Peel Energy. The
Trafford Centre, delivered by The Peel Group, is
now part of Capital Shopping Centres plc.
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MediaCityUK is currently the UK’s largest
private sector development. We are working
in partnership with the Northwest Regional
Development Agency, Salford City Council and
Central Salford Urban Regeneration Company.
MediaCityUK
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Find Out More
Web: mediacityuk.co.uk
peel.co.uk
Twitter: twitter.com/creatingacity
Film: youtube.com/officialmediacityuk
Email: hello@mediacityuk.co.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 161 660 3600
Post: Peel Media, 101 Broadway, MediaCityUK, M50 2PF