Author: Tariq Bashir

Tariq Bashir grew up in Levenshulme and has been involved in Manchester business for most of his adult life. He ran a family wholesale operation in his twenties, moved into commercial property management across the Northern Quarter and Ancoats, and spent five years as operations director at a Greater Manchester hospitality group before going freelance. He writes about independent businesses, commercial rents, hospitality, retail, and the economics of running something in a city that markets itself better than it supports its own. He knows what business rates actually do to a margin and is happy to explain it at length. Tariq lives in Didsbury. He has seen enough "Manchester is booming" headlines to know who is booming and who is covering the till.