March 2019

Developer Foster Marlon Group has acquired the grade two-listed 31 Dale Street in Liverpool city centre, with plans to convert the space into serviced offices and co-working space. The building dates back to 1879 and formerly housed the Reform Club. Liverpool-registered Foster Marlon, which delivered the £8m conversion of Liverpool’s Produce Exchange into 54 apartments in 2017, is to invest £1m in the renovation project. The development will offer 15,732 sq ft of office space and is to include a bar/event space and a boardroom of 20-plus seats to be billed as the Churchill room, a reference to a speech given by Winston Churchill in the building following World War II. It is to open in two phases, being fully open in summer 2019. A Foster Marlon spokesman said: “We are excited to have chosen Liverpool as the launching pad for the FM Works brand which will quite