Marks & Spencer has lodged a planning application for a huge store in central Manchester, boosting its floorspace in the city by a third.
The retailer wants to build 32,500 sq m (350,000 sq ft) as part of the city’s regeneration following last June’s IRA bomb blast. The new store, next to P&O’s Arndale shopping centre, will take in Royal Insurance’s Longridge House in Corporation Street. M&S previously traded out of 18,580 sq m (200,000 sq ft) in the city centre.
M&S is being advised by Nathaniel Lichfield & Partners.
EGi News 10/01/97
