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Manchester Arndale is the largest of the chain of Arndale Centres built across the UK in the 1960s and 1970s. It was redeveloped after the 1996 Manchester bombing . The centre has a retail floorspace of just under 1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m 2 ) (not including Selfridges and Marks and Spencer department stores to which it is connected via a link ...
Manchester also has a high correlation of successful television drama series, [1] with many being produced and filmed in Manchester and the surrounding areas. [ 2 ] Television broadcasting in Manchester is currently undergoing a major transition with the famous Granada Studios and New Broadcasting House being demolished by 2013 to be replaced ...
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 use of glass and steel. Old mills have been converted into apartments. Hulme has undergone extensive regeneration, with million-pound loft-house apartments being developed.
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 ...
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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.
Kendals is the previous name of a department store in Manchester, England. Since 2005, the store now operates as House of Fraser . [ 1 ] The store had previously been known during its operation as Kendal Milne , Kendal, Milne & Co , Kendal, Milne & Faulkner , Harrods or Watts .
The mushrooming of Manchester's nightlife during the Madchester period has had a long-term impact, particularly with the subsequent development of the Gay Village and Northern Quarter. City centre living also began to catch on in Manchester in the wake of Madchester, a trend that continues to this day. [58]