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Today the square is a major shopping area including branches of high-end department stores Selfridges and Harvey Nichols, New Cathedral Street, the Corn Exchange and an entrance to the Manchester Arndale, one of the most-visited shopping centres in the United Kingdom. To the north lies the Printworks and Urbis, now home to the National Football ...
The Exchange Square store opened in 2002 as Manchester city centre started to return to normal following the 1996 Manchester bombing. [24] Selfridges at Exchange Square, Manchester. A 150,000-square-foot (14,000 m 2) store soon followed in 2003 at Birmingham's Bull Ring. [25] Plans for expansion and additional stores continued soon after.
Exchange Square is a tram stop on the Manchester Metrolink's Second City Crossing line, and opened on 6 December 2015 as part of Phase 2CC of the network's expansion. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is located by the main entrance to the Manchester Arndale shopping centre, and is also close to the Printworks .
In March 2015, Missguided launched in US department store Nordstrom, followed by a concession at Selfridges Trafford Centre in June. [8] In November, the second UK bricks-and-mortar store was opened within Selfridges Manchester Exchange Square and the third was opened in Selfridges in Birmingham in March 2016. [9]
The first Corn Exchange built on this site was designed by Richard Lane and completed in 1837. By the late 19th century, it was considered too small, and civic officials decided to commission a larger building. [2] Corn, Grocery & Produce Exchange, Manchester, c.1902. The current building was designed in the Baroque style, and built in two ...
New Cathedral Street is a pedestrianised retail street in Manchester city centre, England. It runs between Exchange Square and Exchange Street (off St Mary's Gate). The street is home to the Manchester branch of Marks and Spencer and Selfridges [ 1 ] (east side), and Harvey Nichols , the largest Ted Baker and Hugo Boss stores outside London ...
The area has been extensively redeveloped after the IRA bomb of 1996 and contains Manchester Cathedral, Shambles Square, Exchange Square and Cathedral Gardens, as well as shopping streets Market Street and King Street. Since the bomb, Selfridges, Marks & Spencer and NEXT have opened dedicated large stores in the area.
In 1999 M&S opened its shop in Manchester's Exchange Square, which was destroyed in the 1996 Manchester bombing and rebuilt. At re-opening, it was the largest M&S shop with 23,000 m 2 (250,000 sq ft) of retail space, but half was subsequently sold to Selfridges, the company's second site in Manchester.