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City centre
We bought the historic Assembly Rooms, rear extension and adjacent assets in October 2025. We are currently exploring potential future uses for the Assembly Rooms building.
Read about Assembly Rooms.
We are creating a place to tell stories from the city and share the ideas, memories, music, imagery and sounds that shape our collective identity.
Read about Belfast Stories (link opens in new page).
We have plans to transform Cathedral Gardens (also known as Buoys Park) into a welcoming, attractive space for people to enjoy visiting all year round, night and day.
Read about Cathedral Gardens.
We want to accelerate city centre living and bring forward significant residential opportunities in the city centre.
Read about our Accelerated City Centre Living plans.
City Quays Gardens is a two-acre green public space in Belfast city centre which opened in 2025.
Located between the Harbour Offices on Corporation Square and the River Lagan waterfront, it features green spaces, seating, trees, event lawns with amphitheatre seating and outdoor workspace. It also offers an off-road cycle route along the waterfront.
The new public space blends the rich industrial and maritime heritage of the area with an innovative and sustainable design.
Our Vacant to Vibrant schemes provided capital grants to incentivise property owners and potential occupiers in bringing vacant properties back into use in local neighbourhoods and the city centre.
Read about our Vacant to Vibrant schemes.
Weavers Cross is a new city centre neighbourhood created around Grand Central Station - the city’s new rail, bus and coach station - which opened in 2024.
It is a mixed-use development comprising grade A office, residential, leisure and public realm spaces, spanning around 1.5 million square feet. The Weavers Cross concept embodies the principles of the 15-minute city, where residents and visitors have convenient access to all their essential services – work, social and leisure-related – within a short walk or cycle.
Read about Weavers Cross (link opens in new window).
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