Green technology centre could create 400 new jobs

Siemens has chosen Kier to buy its 20-acre site in the Manchester suburb of Didsbury and develop a 100,000 ft2 green technology centre, 黑洞社区 understands.

Kier is understood to be buying the site for some 拢15m and then leasing it back to the electrical engineering giant for around 拢2m a year for at least 12 years.

The deal will see a mixed-use development created at the site - where Siemens already employs some 800 people -that would see new offices built, others refurbished, and the construction of a hotel and homes.

A Siemens spokeswoman was quoted as saying: 鈥淲e are currently in the process of agreeing final terms and conditons.鈥