Windmill Green name announced as construction work gets underway

WINDMILL Green has been revealed as the new name for FORE Partnership’s innovative and
inspiring workspace development underway at 24 Mount Street in Manchester.
The transformational real estate investment firm is moving forward with its plans to create a
flexible, collaborative business community, after being granted planning approval by
Manchester City Council in late August.

The announcement comes as construction work got underway this month on the
entrepreneurial hub set over seven-floors across the 78,000 sq ft building. Construction is
due to complete December 2017.

FORE’s plans will see the building rejuvenated to create sustainable Grade A offices,
anchored by a co-working space and a crafted interior design. Windmill Green will stand out
with a roof terrace and improvements to the public realm.
This prominent building, located in the heart of Manchester’s central business district, is
positioned on the corner of Mount Street and Windmill Street and facing onto Manchester
Central Plaza.

Basil Demeroutis, Managing Partner of FORE, said: “We believe the name Windmill Green
reflects the building’s location, its heritage, its sustainability and design, as well as
cementing it as a collaborative meeting place for people to live out their work-life ambitions
– to collaborate, to make and to network.

“At Windmill Green we want to create a fluid and adaptive workspace that responds to the
needs of today’s employees who are demanding more from their jobs.

“We will draw the best talent and bring collaborative businesses together in a hub of
entrepreneurial energy in the heart of Manchester.”

FORE has been working with creative and branding agency The Neighbourhood and Sheila
Bird on developing the Windmill Green brand.
Knight Frank and Lambert Smith Hampton are the agents for Windmill Green.
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on 0161 236 1122. Alternatively, please email: becki.ord@rdpr.co.uk

Notes to Editors

FORE Partnership is a transformational real estate investment firm that addresses the
specific needs of family offices and private investors for greater alignment with their
property investments. FORE achieves this firstly through the direct co-investing platform it
has developed which sources, manages and realises value through hands-on, creative real
estate strategies in the UK and Western Europe. And via a principled investment approach,

FORE drives returns with a holistic view on sustainability, design, occupational trends,
community and the built environment. The firm calls this approach “responsible real
estate”. The team has a successful €5 billion track record spanning three decades. FORE’s
co-founders are Basil Demeroutis who was previously a Partner of Capricorn Investment
Group, a private investment firm, and Cording Real Estate Group, the European property
investment and asset management firm, and FORE operates as part of Cording.

Windmill Green – life’s too short to spend in a humdrum office.

Welcome to a place called Windmill Green – a bright green hub of energy in the beating heart of
Manchester. Inside you’ll find a bustling community of fired up businesses. They come in all shapes
and sizes, but the same things unite them. They love collaboration. They like to keep life varied and
stimulating. And they do things their own way. They also care about their impact upon the
environment and have chosen a building that has sustainability at its heart. This will be a new kind of
workspace that energises and inspires. Central, communal, adaptable and ethical, it can help create
the sort of working environment that attracts the best talent in town.