Manchester Re-Development, Out of Town Retail and Gentrification Case Studies
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- Manchester
- Re-urbanisation and Gentrification
- Northern Quarter: Cotton Industry, hub of economic activity.
- In the 1960s and 70s 1 mill closed on average per day
- 1980s - specialised production only
- After WWII attention was focused away from the Northern Quarter to the Arndale
- Salford Quays:
- 'Largest regeneration project in the UK'
- Salford Quays development plan - 1985
- 2007 - MediaCityUK
- 10,000 jobs created and added £1 billion to the economy over 5 years
- BBC moved in, further attracted other Media developers
- Metrolink
- 1999
- One tram every 12 minutes - suits commuters
- Castlefield
- Historic buildings
- CMDC developed
- Focused on tourism, business and residents
- Urban design
- Focused on tourism, business and residents
- 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Catalyst for regeneration
- SPORT CITY
- Central Park
- Business spaces
- 10,000 new jobs
- Beswick Neighbourhood Planning
- 1,100 new homes created
- New Islington
- Ecopark, canals, homes
- Education: 66% of children received 5 A* - C, compared with 21% in 2001
- Local people employed in retail
- Northern Quarter: Cotton Industry, hub of economic activity.
- Out-of-town Retail centre - Trafford
- 1998 built
- built on a brownfield site, 5 miles west of Manchester
- Cost £600 million to build
- More than 8% of the UKs population lives within a 45 minute drive
- 30 million visit each year
- It has...
- 1600 seat food court
- 20 screen ODEON cinema - attracting 28,500 people each week. UK BUSIEST CINEMA
- Lazer quest, crazy golf, climbing wall
- 280 shops, long opening hours
- 11,000 free car parking spaces
- Access to the M60, M61, M62
- Bus station that sees 120 buses an hour
- Traffic control system to reduce congestion and car park waiting times
- Positive impacts on the surrounding area
- supports local community projects such as the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital through donations
- 8000 people employed, benefits like healthcare
- Negative impacts on the surrounding area
- most visitors drive - more traffic and congestion
- impact on Machester CBD
- Redevelopment of Manchester City Centre
- 19th and 20th century centre of industry.
- 1960s decline, Arndale built in 1975, brought people back to the shops
- 1996 IRA bomb set back development
- Damaged Royal Exchange Theatre and Arndale
- Weeks after the bomb the Manchester Millennium Ltd was set up - design, manage and redevelop CBD, long term investment
- Corn Exchange: renovated, upmarket mall
- Rundown and Unattractive buildings rebuilt/restyled
- Upmarket department stores eg. Selfridges
- Pedestrianisation
- Printworks entertainment complex - IMAX, gym, clubs
- Luxury apartments
- Success:
- 2003-09 population doubled to 19,000
- 3rd most popular tourist destination in UK
- contributed £5 billion to economy and retail made £300 million
- Still problems...
- 2001 16% of the population on low incomes, excluded from the city centre
- Re-urbanisation and Gentrification
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