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in this area – and I suspect MediaCity has been a factor. They’re our anchor stores and, on the back of that, we’ve been getting a fair number of enquiries for the small retail units.” The shops will serve two markets, Neal believes. There will be
the benefit of footfall from Morrisons, expected to be about 35,000 visits a week, as well as people heading for convenient destination outlets like sandwich or coffee shops. “It’s going to be a community retail centre, the first port of call
for anyone living in Ordsall or Salford Quays. When we were looking for a supermarket operator, we went after the big boys.
Ordsall has been quite a deprived area and could have put in a discount operator like Netto, Aldi or Lidl and it would probably have done quite well – but we wouldn’t have got anyone coming from slightly further afield, such as the Quays.” One of the development’s most attractive features is the boule-
vard that forms the spine of the scheme and focuses on the main entrance of the Grade listed St Clement’s Church to the east and connects into a future development site to the west. The inten- tion is for it to be tree-lined and have generous pedestrian areas, with entrances to apartments and houses animating its edges.
Clockwise from top: Apartments above retail and service yard entrance; Car park ground floor pro- vided storage solution; Betfred founder Fred Done (right) visits his new shop
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