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| The Sharp Project | |
|---|---|
| Type of project | Profit for purpose |
| Owner | Manchester City Council |
| Founder | Sue Woodward |
| Established | 2011 (2011) |
| Website | www |
The Sharp Project is aManchester space hosting flexible office, production and event space. It is based in a 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) refurbished warehouse previously occupied by electronics companySharp.
Manchester City Council purchased the former warehouse owned by the Sharp Corporation in 2006 for £6.1 million and decided to keep the Sharp name for the new development.[1] The development of the facility was headed by Sue Woodward, former Managing Director at theGranada Television franchise.[2]
The £16.5 million profit-for-purpose development is owned byManchester City Council.[citation needed] Completed in June 2011, it was funded by Manchester City Council, theNorthwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and theEuropean Regional Development Fund. Manchester has the second-largest cluster of creative and media industries in Europe.[3]
Creative digital agency and social enterprise SharpFutures is located at The Sharp Project.
In February 2011,Tiger Aspect Productions selected The Sharp Project to film a comedy series,Mount Pleasant, forSky One.[4]
In 2011,Lime Pictures andObjective Productions filmedFresh Meat, a comedy forChannel 4 based on a group of students and their experiences at their first year at university.[5] In 2015 Objective Productions filmed the fourth and final series ofFresh Meat at The Sharp Project.[6] Sky TV’s Brassic is partly filmed and has its production offices here.
