The BBC has received the keys to the first of its three buldings in the massive MediaCityUK development in Salford Quays, to which 2,500 employees of the Corporation will relocate by 2011. Building C, the largest of the three, will be home to BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Sport and local and regional news. In spring 2010 the remaining two buildings – A and B – which will house BBC Children’s, BBC Learning, religion, radio, hundreds of technologists and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, will also be handed over, creating the Corporation’s second biggest base after London.
The MediaCityUK development has brought in £92m worth of business for Salford firms, triggering a boom for the local construction industry.
