Manchester Arndale

Manchester Arndale
Main entrance
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

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. It was redeveloped after the 1996 Manchester bombing.

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 via a link bridge), making it Europe's third largest city-centre shopping mall.[5] It is one of the largest shopping centres in the UK, with 41 million visitors annually,[6] ahead of the Trafford Centre, which attracts 35 million.[7]

  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. ^ Christopher Middleton (2001). "Centre shifts". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  4. ^ Frame, Don (20 October 2005). "Revealed: The new Arndale". Manchester Evening News. M.E.N media. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  5. ^ "Manchester Arndale, The Mall" (PDF). May 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 October 2007. Retrieved 10 August 2008.
  6. ^ "Busiest year ever for Manchester Arndale Centre as 41 million pass through doors in 2012". Manchester Evening News. 3 January 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  7. ^ Bounds, Andrew (28 December 2010). "Tills ring at Trafford Centre". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 11 December 2022.