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In the shadow of Manchester town hall’s clock tower, and rising from the city’s former Bootle Street police station, a new office block is adding to Manchester’s ever-growing skyline.

Number 1 St Michael’s, Gary Neville ’s new office block, is also the first ‘speculative’ block to be fully let out before it opens in 15 years, something the United legend is ‘incredibly proud of’.

“But most of all, I am grateful to live in a city where people come together and want do well for the city,” he said at its official opening ceremony on Wednesday (November 5). View 3 Images

And the 10-storey offices, now home to Channel 4, started out in life when Gary Neville when he ‘went behind Sir Alex Ferguson ’s back’

“For 21 years of my life now, I've been developing, contracting, I

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