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Manchester Arndale is a large shopping centre in Manchester, England. [3] It was constructed in phases between 1972 and 1979, at a cost of £100 million. [ 4 ] Manchester Arndale is the largest of the chain of Arndale Centres built across the UK in the 1960s and 1970s.
The first Arndale Centre, in Jarrow, opened in 1961.It is now known as the Viking Centre. The Cross Gates Centre in Cross Gates, Leeds was an Arndale Centre until 2000.. In 1950, Arnold Hagenbach, a baker with a talent for property investment, and Sam Chippendale, an estate agent from Otley, set up a company called the Arndale Property Trust, the name being a portmanteau of "Arnold" and ...
Prior to Greater Manchester's creation as a ceremonial county in 1974, the first tall building boom in Manchester and Salford occurred in the 1960s and 1970s, with notable buildings including the 118 m (387 ft) tall CIS Tower, which became the tallest building in the United Kingdom when constructed in 1962, [3] and the 107 m (351 ft) tall City ...
Manchester Arndale is the UK's largest city-centre shopping centre. [56] Large city sections from the 1960s have been demolished, re-developed or modernised with the ...
Corporation Street Bridge is a skyway which crosses Corporation Street in Manchester city centre, Manchester. The bridge replaced the old footbridge, which was damaged beyond repair in the 1996 Manchester bombing. The bridge is shaped in the form of a hyperboloid and links the Marks & Spencer/Selfridges building to the Manchester Arndale.
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Corporation Street is a major thoroughfare in Manchester city centre, England.It runs from Dantzic Street to the junction of Cross Street and Market Street.Major buildings located on or adjacent to the street include the Arndale Centre, Exchange Square, The Printworks, Urbis (National Football Museum) and New Century House next to the CIS Tower.
The opening of the Manchester Arndale in 1975 shifted the retail focus towards the area bounded by Market Street, Corporation Street, Withy Grove and High Street. Despite the Arndale's unpopularity with many critics, it has been described as an outstandingly successful shopping centre by visitor numbers and spending.