Location x 3, Grand Designs, Amazing Spaces, Building the Dream etc etc

Lawyers Reed Smith and accountants Deloitte were at C4's elbow as they chose between Greater Manchester, Birmingham and Leeds. I can't track down their property advisors.

If they're going to start moving to Leeds next year, they need space that's almost fitted out (for office staff) and that can be adapted quickly (for the newsroom, studio, edit and graphics etc). I'm guessing they'd like to be closer to the train station than the airport. Rushbond's re-development of the old Majestic Cinema, under construction by Sir Robert McAlpine, is across the road from the station's City Square entrance. 

First opened in 1922, the 2,500 seat auditorium was designed by architects Pascal J. Stienlet and J.C. Maxwell.. It boasted a 3 manual/33 stop organ, a restaurant and basement ballroom. The first film was Way Down East, starring Lillian Gish, directed by D W Griffith; best seats 2/4d. It closed as a cinema in 1969 - last film was The Good The Bad and The Ugly. It operated as a bingo hall til 1996, then was re-opened as the Majestyk Nightclub, with disco Jumpin' Jacks in the basement. A major fire shut the whole thing down in 2014, as the ground floor was being converted to retail units.

The top two floors look about right to me. CGI image.