Ask Real Estate, in a joint venture with the Richardson family and PATRIZIA, has exchanged an agreement with Whitbread, which owns Premier Inn. 

The 200-bed hotel will occupy the top 5 floors of the site (floors 12 – 16) at the First Street venue. It is the first confirmed tenant. The building will also house grade A office space (floors 1 – 11), with winter gardens on each office floor. 

 

These companies will also submit a planning application in May 2019 to redevelop the Premier Inn at Deansgate Locks. 

 

John Hughes, managing director of Ask Real Estate, said: "With a projected lack of grade A office space in the city from 2021 we will be bringing forward much-needed, high-quality and flexible office space to a buoyant market and are delighted to announce Premier Inn as the building’s first tenant.

 

"Given the high level of demand we saw from a broad range of businesses for N08, which was 80 per cent pre-let before practical completion, we are confident that there is capacity in the office market for further development at First Street. This is the latest step in the on-going evolution of the First Street neighbourhood which is the proven mixed-use destination we envisaged."

 

Nicholas Johnston, acquisition manager for northern England at Premier Inn, added: "As a major investor in Manchester we are continually looking at our portfolio of Premier Inn hotels to ensure we are in the best possible locations and provide a consistently high-quality experience for our guests.

 

"The decision to redevelop the Premier Inn Deansgate Locks site and bring a latest generation Premier Inn hotel to First Street reflects this. Working with ASK Real Estate and its partners, we are able to increase the number of Premier Inn bedrooms in the popular micro-location and bring our latest format to the area."

 

Source: Insider Media North West

 

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The hotel industry often employs a diverse mix of casual, temporary, agency, part time and full-time permanent staff in order to staff the hotel around the clock. If there was ever an industry which suffers from still using paper timesheets to record working hours, it is this one. 

 

Keeping track of shifts, especially on night shifts or other times when the manager isn’t around, is very difficult with high volumes of staff and timesheets. Employees regularly forget to hand in their timesheets, and agency staff hand it straight to their agencies meaning that sometimes the employer never even sees it to approve it. 

 

Purchasing a workplace management system from Time and Attendance North West will solve these issues. If staff have to clock in at the clocking terminal before entering and leaving, there will no longer be any ambiguity about working hours and no need to sort through hundreds of timesheets at the end of the week or month. 

 

Here at Time and Attendance North West we can offer two ways to clock in with our reliable clocking terminal: using a radio frequency “smart-card” or by using fingerprint biometrics for extra security. 

 

If you cannot use our physical clocking terminals for some reason (such as the landlord of your building not allowing wiring changes), then we can provide a browser-based clocking program called the Self-Service Module (SSM) so that workers can clock in and out with a click of their mouse.

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