A fashion brand is planning to set up a new headquarters in Salford backed by a £7 million investment.
Plaza Collection was established in 1982 and has grown to a position where it sells around 25,000 garments to customers every week both wholesale and online, the company says.
The family-run firm is currently working from OM House on Broughton Street in Cheetham Hill, but has submitted plans to build offices, a showroom and warehouse on a former car dealership site which it owns on 266 Bury New Road, Salford.
This will involve the ‘redevelopment and extension of the former car showroom buildings to accommodate Plaza Collection Ltd’s new headquarters,’ planning documents state, as well as a five-storey storage unit.
The report adds: ‘Alongside the erection of a standalone self storage unit, which would be let out to a specialist operator, independent of the Plaza Collection business, and provide a second income stream. The total GIA [gross internal area] is 5,358 square metres.’
Plaza Collection says it has outgrown its current site and has been looking for a new location for the past five years.
It has about 40 people on the payroll and a larger site is expected to pave the way to recruit more staff, with the firm planning to hire 50 percent more people in the coming years.
The company’s plans have been submitted to Salford City Council which is aiming to decide the application by the end of this year.
