11 Facts About Trafford Centre

1.

Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre and leisure complex in Greater Manchester, England.

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Trafford Centre opened in 1998 and is the third largest shopping centre in the United Kingdom by retail size.

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3.

Twelve years after the Trafford Centre was conceptualised by the Peel Group, it opened on 10 September 1998.

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4.

On opening, the Trafford Centre was the largest shopping centre in the UK but lost the title to Bluewater in Kent in 1999.

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5.

The Trafford Centre was widely recognised as the prime asset in Intu's portfolio of 17 shopping centres with a valuation of £1.

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6.

Centre was put up for sale on 13 August 2020, and on 10 November 2020 the Trafford Centre was effectively put into receivership by its creditors and Intu Properties ceased to own the Trafford Centre.

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Trafford Centre has four main areas across two floors, Peel Avenue, Regent Crescent, the Dome, and the Orient, and was designed so that visitors enter on both main shopping floors in equal numbers.

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8.

The Trafford Centre was built to be "future-proof" in the words of developer John Whittaker with the infrastructure for an additional fourth floor built during construction.

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9.

The Trafford Centre has 45,000 square metres of marble and granite flooring from Montignosa and Quarlata in Italy at a cost of £5.

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10.

Trafford Centre has features which pay homage to the local area and North West England.

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11.

The terminating Trafford Centre tram stop serves the west of the centre while the Barton Dock Road tram stop serves the east of the centre and Barton Square.

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