- Feel Good Club signed the lease to occupy CERT’s Hilton House 1192 sq ft retail unit on the ground floor
- New lease signed for 13 years
- Hilton House fully let other than just one office floor left available
CERT announced today that Feel Good Club has signed a 13 years lease over a further 1192 sq. ft of space next door to its existing premises in Hilton House, a commercial hub in Manchester city centre. The first of its kind, the wellbeing cafe opened in summer 2020 within 3186 sq.ft. space at the ground floor of the Northern Quarter building.
The new deal sees Feel Good Club take their total space to 4378 sq.ft. taking over the whole retail unit on the ground floor. The additional space is anticipated to be used to expand the coffee shop’s kitchen and their headquarters. Feel Good Club have appointed Workspace Design and Build to complete the works, with works anticipated to be completed by the end of 2022.
Aimie said “We are super excited to be growing the club only 2 years into business, the kitchen expansion means we can create our own baked goods, grab and go , offer evening food and extend our current brunch menu.”
“The front of the unit is going to be our office for the brand to stock our merchandise and create content. To have the whole of the brand under one roof , in such an amazing building ,makes us feel so good.”
Designed by renowned 1960s architect Richard Seifert, the brutalist building Hilton House has been a hidden gem at the end of Hilton Street for decades and with the developer and owner CERT’s extensive refurbishment project the building was brought back to life in 2020.
The refurbishment, which aimed to turn the building into a creative workspace, was carried out by Ancoats-based contractor Armitage Construction and designed by Buttress Architects. The works retained the building’s original features including parquet floors discovered under old carpet and terracotta ceilings hidden under plasterboard were lovingly restored.
Hilton House is an inclusive space which aligns with its tenants values, and in the last couple of years both CERT and Feel Good Club have supported various events in Hilton House such as New Normal and Manchester Pride which both brought people together and also promoted diversity and inclusion in the community.
Regular exhibition shows were also established in Hilton House reception that showcase and support the local and up and coming artists. Current exhibition is called Mother, illustrations by artists Caroline Dowsett and Ben Vulliamy.
Howard Lord, Managing Director of CERT Property said “It is a great pleasure to see Feel Good Club expanding into this space and is a testament to what the two founders, Aimie and Kiera have built that a local business such as this has been able to launch during the midst of the pandemic and just two years later be expanding. The offering is the perfect complement to the community feel we have sought to develop at Hilton House and I’m sure the expanded venue will be a huge success.”
Hilton House’s first ever tenant broadband provider, Telcom, left the building last July and relocated into a larger space for its growing business. The 3,649 sq ft demise on the fifth floor is currently available as a fully furnished office space.
Other current occupiers in the building include CERT’s headquarter on the fourth floor, Grayce, a consultancy company, Softwire, a bespoke software engineering & digital design company that moved into the second floor in the summer, Hawkins Brown, an internationally-renowned award winning architectural practice, and lastly Train Urban, a private personal training and class facility situated in the basement.
