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Rochdale shopping centre to close for good after 'surreal year'

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Rochdale is closing its doors for good due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Bosses have confirmed the Wheatsheaf Shopping Centre will close to the public at the end of the second lockdown on December 2.This means that essential business which are currently open in the two-floor shopping centre on Baillie Street will close.Non-essential shops that are already shut will never reopen.All staff and tenants have been told about the 'difficult decision' to close the centre.Owners MCR Property Group bought the complex in 2017 and said they hoped to 'attract fresh leisure, commercial and new retail operators to complement the existing occupiers'.But a 'nationwide shift in shopping habits' means people have stopped shopping in town.

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