MORNING NEWS: Manchester and the Madison Square Garden Company

Grosvenor is in the news this morning. EG brings you up to date with the developer’s plan to triple the size of its strategic land business.

Also from EG, a look at Manchester’s office market and the Madison Square Garden Company, which plans to disrupt the UK’s live entertainment scene with an 18,000-capacity spherical venue in London.

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