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As a shopping centre Manchester Arndale was outstandingly successful, and the critics' opinions were not universally held – especially by its owners. [91] By 1996 the Arndale was fully let, raised £20 m a year in rents, [ 92 ] was the seventh busiest shopping area in the UK in terms of sales, [ 93 ] and was visited by 750,000 people a week ...
The Mall Blackburn, Blackburn (formerly Blackburn Shopping Centre) The Mall Chester, Chester (formerly The Mall Grosvenor / Grosvenor Shopping Centre) Manchester Arndale, Manchester; Marble Place Shopping Centre, Southport; The Market Shopping Centre, Crewe; Market Walk Shopping Centre, Chorley; Marketgate Shopping Centre, Lancaster
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 ...
The bus station, designed by Jefferson Sheard Architects, replaced the former Cannon Street bus station, under the Manchester Arndale; since the redevelopment of Manchester city centre, the latter has disappeared along with Cannon Street itself. [4] The Bus station is now under the control of TfGM through the Bee Network (as of 2024). Bus station
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The Middleton Arena leisure centre as seen from LCpl Joel Halliwell VC Way. In the early 1970s, The Arndale Property Trust cleared land adjacent to Middleton Gardens to build an 'American-style' modern shopping precinct. The Middleton Arndale Centre commenced trading in 1971, although it was officially opened by the Duchess of Kent in March 1972.
The area now between Shudehill and Victoria Station was first built upon in the 14th century, as the village of Manchester expanded as a local centre for the wool trade. The expansion of the area was gradual up to the mid-18th century, when Manchester markedly increased in size and significance with the onset of the Industrial Revolution.
Previously the area was the retail heart of the city centre but with the opening of the Manchester Arndale in the 1970s patronage gradually dwindled and vacant buildings were commonplace. In the late 1980s the area was renamed as the Northern Quarter in the hope that the area would be reincarnated from the ground up.