Portfolio: Property

Here are examples of some of the projects and work we do for our clients. They provide a good overview of our experience across the disciplines of marketing, communications and public relations.

Park Hill, Sheffield

The brutalist Park Hill, Sheffield, designed by Ivor Smith and Jack Lynn had over 1000 homes but when Urban Splash got involved only around 100 of them were occupied. Loved and loathed in equal measure by people from Sheffield, when it was announced Urban Splash was to redevelop it, a huge statement was needed to […]

Tags: Media Relations, Property, Regeneration, Urban Splash,

Midland Hotel, Morecambe

From the minute Urban Splash signed the deal on Morecambe’s famous Art Deco Midland Hotel on Christmas Eve 2003, it became the project Lisa was asked most about by the press. The iconic hotel, designed by Oliver Hill and built in 1933, had stood empty for several years and its once elegant beauty was cracking […]

Tags: Hotel, Press Coverage, Property, Public Sector, Regeneration, Urban Splash,

Make the most of MIPIM

Construction firm Seddon asked Ashurst Communications to help them organise the company’s first visit to the international property convention MIPIM in 2014. We advised the company to join the Manchester Partnership which is organised by Marketing Manchester. As part of the benefits to joining the Manchester Partnership we wrote a blog post on behalf of […]

Tags: Construction, Launch Events, Property,

Swan Square Offices, Manchester

Ashurst Communications was asked to launch a brand new commercial scheme in Manchester’s Northern Quarter in autumn 2012. At a time when the property market was still in turmoil, a launch was unusual and this helped us secure not only widespread press coverage for the development of 14 three storey self-contained office and retail units […]

Tags: Commercial, Launch Events, Property,

St Clements Old School, Chorlton

Despite dire market conditions, local developer Chris Barton decided to forge ahead to bring his property to market in spring 2012. A stunning conversion of a Victorian school house into four, four storey townhouses on the popular Chorlton Green conservation area in Manchester. Ashurst Communications was asked to create and deliver an open day to […]

Tags: Launch Events, Property, Residential,