Manchester Arndale
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| Location | Manchester, England |
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| Coordinates | 53°29′00″N 2°14′29″W / 53.48333°N 2.24139°WCoordinates: 53°29′00″N 2°14′29″W / 53.48333°N 2.24139°W |
| Opening date | 1975 |
| Developer | Arndale Property Trust |
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Prudential Intu Properties |
| No. of stores and services | 210 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 7 |
| Total retail floor area | 1,400,000 sq ft (130,000 m2) |
| No. of floors | 3 (21 in Office Tower) |
| Parking | 1450 spaces, NCP (Manchester) Limited. |
| Website | www |
Manchester Arndale (sometimes also known as the Arndale Centre or the Arndale, a term that has been widely used to describe a number of shopping centres in the UK) is a large shopping centre in Manchester, England. The centre was built in the 1970s when many other cities were constructing large malls. Manchester Arndale is the largest of a chain of Arndale Centres built across the UK in the 1960s and 1970s. It was constructed in phases between 1972 and 1979, at a cost of £100 m.
The centre was redeveloped after the 1996 Manchester bombing. The centre has a retail floorspace of just under 1,500,000 sq ft (140,000 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. It is one of the largest shopping centres in the UK with 41 million visitors annually, ahead of the Trafford Centre which attracts 35 million.
In August 2015 the Arndale announced the launch of its first ever Charity Star initiative, which will see the centre fundraise for a chosen charity for one whole year.
The Manchester Arndale was built between 1971–79 on Market Street in Manchester city centre by developers, Town & City Properties, the successors to the Arndale Property Trust, with financial backing from the Prudential Assurance Company and Manchester Corporation. The first phase opened in 1975. It was the largest Arndale Centre in the United Kingdom.
The Arndale Property Trust, formed in the early 1950s, took its name from its founders, Arnold Hagenbach and Sam Chippindale. Hagenbach, a Yorkshireman of Swiss extraction owned a chain of baker's shops and had invested in retail premises from 1939. Chippindale was an estate agent and former civil servant from Otley. Arndale was unusual, though not unique, amongst property companies in being based outside London and specialising in retail property. Hagenbach invested more and was the quieter partner. Chippindale was blunt and outspoken but was able to persuade sceptical northern councils to accept the company's proposals, where London-based developers could not. Arndale bought property north of Market Street in 1952.
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