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The Haunted Car Park: How One Cursed Site Charts The Ups And Downs Of Manchester's Property Business

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The River Street site in May 2017

When the time comes to gather round the water cooler and tell spine chilling stories of the olden days, the tale of Manchester's River Street car park is sure to come up.

Starkly visible from the Mancunian Way, and all-too-obvious on one of the main southern gateways to central Manchester, for two decades the graffiti covered and apparently crumbling framework has been a reminder that not all property projects succeed. Surface car parking — the profitable purgatory that awaits stalled development sites — has been its fate.

 

January 2008 - Hotel Reservation Cancelled

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