Manchesters old Industrial buildings have provided the perfect raw ingredients with which to combine an ultra modern look with a traditional past. Over the past 15 years the city centre has changed out of all perspective. Gone are the old, run down or abandoned mills and factories which have been renovate into super trendy warehouse living apartments incorporating a classy look of steel and glass.
Shops in Manchester have established themselves in these areas creating boutique shopping experience. The various quarters of the city all offer a different look and feel.
Superb office space in Manchester can be found just of the main Deansgate road through the centre and in the Castlefields area. Castlefields is focused around a canal system, where goods were brought to be unloaded in to warehouses surrounding this junction. Today they have been converted into living accommodation and office space providing a picturesque setting for a trendy business park accommodating companies mainly in media and IT. Retail units in Manchester are in high demand in and around a business park like this providing lunch time snacks and other services such as dry cleaning to the surrounding workers. Restaurants in Manchester also do very well off the back of this corporate trade.
Manchester also has its answer to Canary Warf with it's a waterside business complex occupying the area know as Salford Quays. Millions of square feet of air conditioned office space in Manchester is available to rent here. Warehouses in Manchester are also mostly located in or around the Salford Quays area as they provide easy access to the M62 and M60 motorways.