All Fall Down: Will Manchester Tower Plans Take A Tumble?
January 22, 2019

All Fall Down: Will Manchester Tower Plans Take A Tumble?

The 54-storey residential and hotel tower planned for Manchester's St John's development is no more: Allied London and their partners scrapped it citing "unresolved development issues".

Is this the moment when Manchester's crop of two dozen residential skyscraper proposals begin to topple like skittles, as commercial reality and development pressures take their toll?

Ahead of the Manchester State of the Market event on 27 March, Bisnow finds out.

Days after investor Europa Capital acquired Salford's 44-storey 100 Greengate residential skyscraper, just across the river Irwell a rival 54-storey skyscraper scheme was unceremoniously dumped. The website page devoted to the St John's Tower now reads "Error" and that, in the opinon…

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