Merseyway Redevelopment

Over recent years Stockport Council has initiated an ambitious and innovative programme of regeneration activities. As part of this programme the Merseyway Shopping Centre was acquired by SMBC out of administration in 2016.

The team developed a redevelopment and investment strategy based on prioritising occupancy whilst redeveloping the key assets to encourage diversification of the offer and reposition the Centre as more than a retail core.

The redevelopment was based around a series of phased intervention projects that could be brought forward individually or as a whole as the right market opportunities became available. The first of these were taken through design and procurement. With the launch of the Government’s Future High Streets Fund, the team led the development of the successful Stockport Future High Streets Business Case which was submitted in spring 2020 to facilitate the delivery of Stockroom as part of the Merseyway redevelopment.