Property development and investment co – focussed on building spaces to work and live.
Property development and investment co – focussed on building spaces to work and live.

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Ben Newton from Patch shares key themes from GCUC UK: Patrick Kennedy and Phoebe Reilly of Colliers argued that local boutique operators are outcompeting global flex brands by knowing their city, while Alexandra Livesey and Ben Cheriton pointed out that flex revenue is still undervalued by investors despite member tenures that resemble leases.
A community panel chaired by Tilley Harris with Garry James, Kreena Pithwa, and Emma Harvey reframed community teams as revenue protection not a cost line, and Michael Ingall of Allied London closed with the reminder that property alone doesn’t build cities.
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Emilie Lashmar shared a thorough recap of GCUC UK’s last Manchester event, which she co-hosted with Georgia-Kaye Berry (from Colony).
The recap runs over the data shared by Jordan Saleh (CBRE), Ryan Jans (WeWork), and Tanya Grady (Allied London); what makes a workspace stand out by Nicola Jones (GPE), Lucy Pickavance (Phoenix Resourcing), Ana Bernardo (Work.Life), and Ben Newton (Patch); some indie-vs-big-pocket insights from Lisa Cations (JCR Advisors), Shannon Burke (managed.), Tom Almas (Wizu), Rebekah Lloyd-Beere (Landsec), and Gareth I. Jones (TownSq). Alongside workshops led by Samuel Warren (technologywithin), Manuel Conti (PONT), Claire Carpenter and George Tilbury; Lisa Quait ran the Women in Flex Luncheon. The event was then rounded out with sessions from Nicholas Drew (urbanbubble) and Sammy Dukes (Yardi) on operational intelligence and Pauline Roussel (Coworkies) and Jonathan O’Byrne on community.
Why did we highlight all the speakers above? To elevate the (many new) voices who took the stage in Manchester.
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