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What this £300m makeover reveals about Manchester city centre's future

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A major development in Manchester city centre has obtained planning permission at the Town Hall. It promises to realise the potential of the industrial redbrick building, complete with new leisure opportunities, green space, and hundreds of flats.

On the surface it's hardly anything new for Manchester. But in reality, the plans for the historic Great Northern warehouse show how Manchester city centre could change over this decade.

The proposals for the Grade II Deansgate building, which were approved in a mammoth four-hour planning meeting on February 16, are transformative. READ MORE: The 50 best restaurants in Greater Manchester right now The warehouse's last major regeneration saw it turned into a leisure complex in 1999.

It originally opened a hundred years before that as a ‘three-way goods exchange’, where goods could arrive and be shipped out by rail, canal, or road, with 'nine acres of streets' razed to make way for it.

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