Manchester Arndale

Manchester Arndale (the The Arndale Centre or The Arndale) 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 m) (not including Selfridges and Marks and Spencer department stores to which it is connected via a link bridge), making it Europe's largest city-centre shopping mall. It is one of the largest shopping centres in the UK with 38...