{"id":7368,"date":"2026-01-27T17:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/?p=7368"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:03:10","slug":"five-growth-clusters-announced-for-manchester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/five-growth-clusters-announced-for-manchester\/","title":{"rendered":"Five growth clusters announced for Manchester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has unveiled major plans to \u2018reindustrialise the birthplace of the industrial revolution.\u2019 Focusing on five Greater Manchester boroughs, the plans are said to create thousands of new homes, jobs and an economic boost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five \u2018growth clusters\u2019 have been identified in Greater Manchester, with each cluster dedicated to developing a specific industry. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/manchester-city-centre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester city centre is set<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to be home to the \u2018digital, cyber, and AI\u2019 cluster, with the \u2018life sciences\u2019 cluster centered around <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/oxford-road\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oxford Road<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019s universities, hospitals, and Manchester Science Park. MediaCity will be home to the \u2018creative and media industries\u2019. The \u2018two emerging\u2019 clusters include a \u2018low carbon\u2019 area around <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/carrington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carrington<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/trafford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trafford<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and \u2018advanced manufacturing\u2019 in Atom Valley, spread over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/bury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bury<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/oldham\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oldham<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/all-about\/rochdale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rochdale<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The plans are set to progress the city&#8217;s economy to \u2018well past the \u00a3100bn mark\u2019. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester mayor Andy Burnham has unveiled major plans to \u2018reindustrialise the birthplace of the industrial revolution.\u2019 Focusing on five Greater Manchester boroughs, the plans are said to create thousands of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7369,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7368\/revisions\/7369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}