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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 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
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 ...
Spinning Gate Shopping Centre, Leigh, Greater Manchester; St George's Shopping Centre, Preston (formerly The Mall Preston, The Mall St. George) St. John's Shopping Centre, Liverpool; St. Nicholas Arcades Shopping Centre, Lancaster; Stretford Mall, Stretford (formerly Arndale Centre) Swan Court Shopping Arcade, Clitheroe; Trafford Centre ...
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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.
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.
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.