{"id":7426,"date":"2026-02-24T16:23:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/?p=7426"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:23:30","slug":"major-company-triples-manchester-office-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/major-company-triples-manchester-office-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Major company triples Manchester office size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Co-operative bank has announced their new office acquisition, in which they have secured a 45,000 sq ft office space across three floors at One Balloon Street.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matt Shufflebottom, director in CBRE\u2019s office team in Manchester, said: \u201cThis deal underlines the continued demand for high-quality, fully fitted workspace in Manchester city centre. The Co-operative Bank\u2019s expansion is a strong endorsement of [One Balloon Street] and its long-term appeal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Co-operative bank employs over 3,350 people, with the headquarters in Manchester city centre. The significant expansion in their office size reaffirms the confidence in the city from major employers, as Manchester\u2019s economy begins to thrive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manchester is experiencing an economic annual growth at over twice the national rate, with the city experiencing significant growth across multiple sectors. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Co-operative bank has announced their new office acquisition, in which they have secured a 45,000 sq ft office space across three floors at One Balloon Street.\u00a0 Matt Shufflebottom, director&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7426","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\/7426","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=7426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7427,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7426\/revisions\/7427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vitaliving-circlesquare.com\/north\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}