Author: Staff

Manchester’s growth this year doesn’t announce itself with slogans or ribbon-cuttings. It shows up earlier, in the morning queues at Oxford Road cafés, where laptops appear before the first flat white, and later in the evening, when trams leaving Deansgate feel fuller than they did a year ago. The local economy has a way of signalling momentum through these small, cumulative shifts. Part of it is confidence returning after years of caution. Not exuberance, exactly, but a steadier willingness to commit. Commercial leases that sat undecided through much of last year are being signed. Recruiters speak less about freezes and…