It seems like Manchester is in a construction boom without end. Every year, new towers pop-up — each taller than the last — promising the latest in luxury for the residents, hotel guests, or office workers who will end up occupying them.
Developers OVG say it will house ‘100 nights of music’ every year , with its CEO, Tim Leiweke, adding he believes that the Arena will add to the city centre. That's even though it is next to the Etihad. It will be 11 storeys tall, and has ‘a hotel lobby style reception with space for flexible working. A double-height pedestrianised colonnade, aligned with a new public route through New Century from Sadler's Yard, connects the new building to the existing NOMA community.
Mayfield Manchester city centre saw its first new park opened in more than 100 years in September as part of the Mayfield development near Piccadilly Station. Since then, a £400m deal has been struck so that work on the first phase of the development around the new park can start towards the end of 2023.
The unique building at the heart of the St John's regeneration area will be the permanent home of Manchester International Festival with events planned all year round, contributing an estimated £1.1bn to the economy over a decade. But the major project, which is being funded mostly by the government and Arts Council England, has seen its budget almost double since its conception.
However, the city centre's only synagogue is set to be demolished to make way for the £200m development which has been many years in the making. The Manchester Reform Synagogue at Jackson's Row held its final service at the 70-year-old building in November after agreeing to a £15m sale in 2021. Victoria North Developers say it is the biggest urban regeneration project in the North of England – and work on 20-year project worth £4bn is now well under way. The vision for the area north of Victoria Station is to build 15,000 new homes - of which around a fifth would be affordable - as well as a new city river park.