Manchester Arndale

shopping centre in Manchester, England

Manchester Arndale is a large shopping centre in the centre of Manchester, England. It was built between 1972 and 1979, at a cost of £100 million. It was the last of three local buildings designed by Wilson and Womersley architects, after Hulme Crescents and the Manchester Education Precinct. It was covered with yellow tiles. 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.

Manchester Arndale
View of the Arndale Centre from Shudehill
LocationManchester, England
Coordinates53°29′00″N 2°14′29″W / 53.48333°N 2.24139°W / 53.48333; -2.24139
Opening date1975; 49 years ago (1975)
DeveloperArndale Property Trust
OwnerM&G Real Estate
No. of stores and services210
No. of anchor tenants7
Total retail floor area1,300,000 sq ft (120,000 m2)
No. of floors3 (21 in Office Tower)
Parking1450 spaces, NCP (Manchester) Limited.[1][2]
Websitemanchesterarndale.com

The centre has a retail floorspace of just under 1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m2) (not including Selfridges and Marks and Spencer department stores to which it is connected by a link bridge). It ist Europe's third largest city-centre shopping mall. It is one of the largest in the UK, with about 41 million visitors a year, ahead of the Trafford Centre.

There is a market which is owned and run by Manchester City Council. The rest of the centre is owned by M&G Real Estate and run by CBRE Group.[3]

References

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  1. "Getting here". Manchester Arndale web pages. Archived from the original on 17 December 2008. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  2. NCP (Manchester) Limited is a joint venture between National Car Parks (NCP) and Manchester City Council, see "About us". Archived from the original on 7 February 2009. Retrieved 12 December 2008.
  3. Mill, The. "Everyone hates the Arndale, but it's a microcosm of Manchester". manchestermill.co.uk. Retrieved 2023-12-02.