Hundreds of people gathered in Manchester city centre this afternoon to protest against soaring energy prices and the cost of living crisis as part of a day of national action for an anti-poverty campaign.
12.09.2022 - 09:33 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
One of Manchester city centre’s most iconic buildings — the Great Northern Warehouse — is set for a major change. While it will still be recognizable as the Victorian behemoth that dominates Deansgate, the fabric of the sprawling, six-acre site is set to shift.
The plans include the removal of the Odeon cinema, creation of a ‘green oasis’ in the existing square, and the construction of two residential towers to house 750 apartments. Those blocks will be roughly two-thirds the height of the neighbouring Beetham Tower, and along with the soon-to-be-completed 136m-tall Viadux tower next door , will dramatically change the skyline of this part of the city.
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Now, following the release of the plans on Wednesday (September 7), the Manchester Evening News has taken an in-depth look at the proposals, and has more clarity over what we can expect.
It’s understood that bosses want to create a ‘truly mixed-use neighbourhood for the city centre’. Part of that, they say, is the construction of two residential towers which will be 92m and 56m tall, respectively.
They will house up to 750 apartments — but the final figure has not yet been determined, the M.E.N. understands. Whatever the that number is, there will be a mix of one, two, and three-bedroom flats — with the latter being ‘larger in format’ in order to specifically attract families.
To put the towers in context, they will be on the site of the existing Odeon cinema — known internally as the 1990s leisure extension. The taller of the two will be roughly two-thirds the height of the 156m-tall Beetham Tower, with the smaller being around a third as high.
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Hundreds of people gathered in Manchester city centre this afternoon to protest against soaring energy prices and the cost of living crisis as part of a day of national action for an anti-poverty campaign.
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Odeon has confirmed it is ‘aware’ of plans to redevelop the Great Northern Warehouse which would see the ‘removal’ of its cinema.
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