‘I love developing, contracting, designing’ – Gary Neville on his journey from pitch to property

By Daniel Gayne2023-07-11T05:02:00

With his £400m St Michael’s scheme finally underway, the former Manchester United star sits down with Daniel Gayne to discuss his real estate career

Nobody could accuse Gary Neville of going into this development thing half-baked. Having weathered a recession, a planning rejection, a change of architects and financial backers and then a pandemic, the ex-footballer’s vision of building a five-star hotel, residential and commercial scheme in the centre of Manchester is finally on site.

If all goes to plan, his company, Relentless, will complete the St Michael’s job 17 years after Neville first purchased the plot on Jackson’s Row – that’s the same amount of time it took him to amass 600 appearances for arguably the greatest Manchester United team ever.

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