Real estate services company Cushman & Wakefield has been hired to make the Cheshire Science Corridor – one of 18 new enterprise zones nationally – into a reality.

The enterprise pone will significantly boost the number of science and innovation businesses in Cheshire and Warrington and has the potential to create more than 20,000 new jobs, attract 500 businesses and lever in approximately £100m to be reinvested in essential infrastructure.

New York-headquartered C&W with offices in Manchester won the bid run by Cheshire and Warrington Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to get the enterprise zone fully operational by April 1.

The Cheshire Science Corridor was designated as one of the 18 new zones by the Department of Communities and Local Government in September.

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