So, who are
Capital & Centric?
We’re a team that loves creating awesome spaces.
We dream up ways to turn unloved land and buildings into brilliant new places. We love great architecture, offbeat design and everything we build is super energy efficient.
In the last 10 years, we’ve completed over 2,000,000 sq ft of development and we spend over £3m a week on regeneration.
We’re busy cracking on with over £500m of development across commercial, residential, hotel and leisure sectors.
We’re also the co-creators of Channel 4 show The Big Interiors Battle. Eight talented interior designers transform Eyewitness Works apartments into their dream home as they battle for a life-changing prize – their very own mortgage-free apartment. Yep, we gave away the biggest prize in telly!
The competition was hosted by the incredible AJ Odudu and we invited design guru Dara Huang to judge the contestants on our behalf. There were also cameos from Tim & Adam - to add a touch of glamour.
We live and breathe social impact.
We believe in creating sustainable change, not just in the communities we create, but in the way we give back.
In 2019, we co-founded Embassy, a repurposed tour bus offering homeless people shelter and support. Now, we’re creating Embassy Village, a pioneering approach that gives vulnerable people their own front door and much needed wrap-around support to break the cycle of homelessness.
We founding partners of Regeneration Brainery, a mentoring programme in 2017 to inspire young people from disadvantaged and diverse backgrounds, so the places we create are better, richer and more reflective of the society we live in. So far, we’ve worked with over 5,000 young people and have collected numerous social impact awards.
During the first lockdown, we transformed our Swan Street site into a Covid supply depot, where over £500,000 of supplies were donated to those most in need across Greater Manchester.
People make places.
People are at the core of what we do. Whether it’s creating an exciting public place for a real community to come together, holding rooftop yoga classes, curating art exhibitions or just throwing parties for our residents.
We banned investors from Crusader and Phoenix. That means no airbnbs, no absentee landlords and no new neighbours every six months. Just a proper community.
Art, music, craft eats and booze. Every community has their own unique little quirks, and that’s really what makes the fabric of a place.
We give a platform to local independents, hosting all sorts from exhibitions and gigs to foodie pop-ups and fundraisers. We bring life back into derelict buildings and abandoned land long before we start building. And we don’t move after we’ve laid the last brick… that’s when we really get to work.