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The Trafford Centre is a large indoor shopping centre located in the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford in Greater Manchester, England. The planning process for The Trafford Centre was one of the longest and most expensive in British history. Ultimately the matter was decided by the House of Lords.^[1]^[2] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 Ã— 527 pixels Full resolution (992 Ã— 653 pixel, file size: 1. ... For other uses, see Trafford (disambiguation). ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... The Peel Group is a collection of property and transport companies based in the United Kingdom. ... The Peel Group is a collection of property and transport companies based in the United Kingdom. ... In retail, an anchor store, or draw tenant, is one of the larger stores in a shopping mall, usually a department store in a major retail chain, such as Macys or JCPenney. ... Gross leasable area (GLA) in the retail development industry is a term applied to shopping malls, lifestyle centers, outlet malls and other retail centers to indicate the amount of floor space available to be rented. ... For the traditional meaning of the word mall, see pedestrian street or promenade. ... For other uses, see Trafford (disambiguation). ... Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England which has a population of 2. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about the British House of Lords. ...

The Trafford Centre is a major sponsor of Salford City Reds rugby league club. Shortly after its opening, the centre provided the setting for Shopping City, a BBC2 daytime programme hosted by Lowri Turner and also provides the "catwalk" ending of the programme, How to Look Good Naked. It is one of the UK's largest shopping centres behind the likes of MetroCentre, Bluewater, Lakeside and Meadowhall. Official website www. ... Rugby league football is a full-contact team sport played with a prolate spheroid-shaped ball by two teams of thirteen on a rectangular grass field. ... BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. History The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts and... Lowri Gwyneth Turnerand got born (31 December 1964 in London, England) to Welsh parents Mervyn and Shirley, is a British television presenter. ... The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a country in western Europe, and member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the G8, the European Union, and NATO. Usually known simply as the United Kingdom, the UK, or (inaccurately) as Great Britain or Britain, the UK has four constituent... This article is about about the shopping centre in North East England. ... , Bluewater interior This article is about a shopping mall. ... This article is about the shopping centre in West Thurrock. ... Meadowhall is a large shopping centre located three miles northeast of central Sheffield and also 3 miles from Rotherham town centre. ...

Structure

The Trafford Centre has 118,766 square metres (1.2m square feet) of retail space and attracts 30 million visits annually (2005 figures). It is made up of 4 main areas: Peel Avenue, Regent Crescent, The Dome, and The Orient. The centre is owned by Peel Holdings. It was designed so that visitors enter on both of the two main shopping floors in equal numbers [1]. This helps avoid the problem suffered by other centres, such as the MetroCentre, where visitors do not go to upper floors meaning that many big retailers avoid upper floor units. The Peel Group is a collection of property and transport companies based in the United Kingdom. ... This article is about about the shopping centre in North East England. ...

Portraits running around the top of the walls of the mall depict members of the Whittaker family, founders of owners Peel Holdings. A Mercedes car belonging to the mother of Peel Holdings' chairman, John Whittaker, is on display on the first floor mall outside F. Hinds. Please wikify (format) this article or section as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

The building's public lighting is under state-of-the-art computer control, adapts to the changing environment, and can be controlled from one central location.^{[citation needed]} All vehicles entering The Trafford Centre have their number plate details recorded via automatic number plate recognition. The system must be able to deal with different styles of licence plates Automatic number plate recognition (ANPR; see also other names below) is a mass surveillance method that uses optical character recognition on images to read the licence plates on vehicles. ...

Peel Avenue

Peel Avenue is home to the high street shops such as an Apple Store, H&M, and Boots. It is also home to two department stores, the new John Lewis which opened in 2005 at the end of Peel Avenue, and the newly refubished four-storey Marks & Spencer, (see below). The space now occupied by John Lewis was previously a market area known as the Festival Village. This article is about the retail chain. ... For the former railroad, see Hudson and Manhattan Railroad. ... Boots is the dominant pharmacist chain in the United Kingdom, with outlets in most high streets throughout the country. ... For the former (1856-1991) unrelated UK department store, see Lewiss. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Marks & Spencer (M&S) is a British retailer, with 760 stores in more than 30 countries around the world. ...

The latest development to be completed is the new four-storey Marks and Spencer. This now features an outside entrance to the foodhall, which will mean that customers doing their food shopping at Marks and Spencer can take their bags straight out to the car park, rather than walking through the mall.

The Dome

The Dome is in the middle of the centre and is home to more upmarket stores such as the first Selfridges outside of London. Selfridges in Birmingham. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ...

Regent Crescent

Regent Crescent is home to many high end designer stores, including Karen Millen, Jane Norman, Gap and Mexx. It also houses the bookshop Waterstones and to two department stores, BHS and Debenhams. Gap, Incorporated (NYSE: GPS) is an American clothing and accessories retailer based in San Francisco, California and founded in 1969 by Donald Fisher and Doris Fisher. ... Mexx is a clothing chain and design firm that operates stores around the world. ... Gower Street branch Waterstones is a chain of British bookshops. ... For other uses of the abbreviation, see BHS Bhs (also trading as British Home Stores and formerly BHS and BhS) is a stalwart department store of the British High Street, selling clothing and household items (such as bedlinen, cutlery, crockery and lighting). ... Debenhams plc (LSE: DEB) is a retailer with a chain of department stores based in the United Kingdom, and franchised stores in a number of other countries. ...

The Orient and The Great Hall

Other non-retail facilities are all located in a central spur called The Orient, a 1,600-seat food court which includes a 20-screen Odeon multiplex cinema, Laser Quest Laser Tag arena, a large Namco Centre with Dodgems, Bowling and Arcade games. There are also dozens of restaurants and bars including The Exchange Bar & Grill, Starbucks, Est Est Est, Ma Potter's, Nando's and Cathay Dim Sum. There are also several popular fast food outlets - McDonald's, KFC, Subway and Pizza Hut amongst others. A new area adjoining the Orient known as "The Great Hall" opened fully in March 2007, although a Costa Coffee outlet opened earlier in January 2007. This new glazed structure houses five new restaurants and cafes. The decision to extend the current dining facilities was due to the growth in demand amongst visitors wishing to dine during their stay, or indeed visit The Trafford Centre during the evening specifically for food and drink. The Great Hall houses an elegant sweeping staircase featuring hundreds of metres of marble balustrade from China, and the largest chandelier in the world. The chandelier was designed by English lighting consultants, and then sent to China for manufacture; assembly and installation was done by local contractors. The chandelier has three levels of plant walkways inside, is around 36 feet (11 m) wide and 49 feet (15 m) high, weighs around five tonnes, and has more lighting control systems than most shopping centres. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2255x812, 198 KB) View of the Trafford Centre File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2255x812, 198 KB) View of the Trafford Centre File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Odeon Cinemas is the largest chain of cinemas in the United Kingdom. ... Laser Quest is the name of an indoor lasertag game based around infrared (IR) hand held units and vests, as well as the name of the company which operates each game center. ... Soldiers of the 2e REI training with laser tag equipment. ... This article is about Namco, a Japanese leisure company and game developer. ... Bumper car at a small town fair Bumper car is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electric cars that draw their power from an overhead grid, which is turned off by the operator at the end of a session. ... A bowler releases the ball. ... Centipede by Atari is a typical example of a 1980s era arcade game. ... For other meanings of the name Starbuck, see Starbuck. ... The Nandos logo. ... McDonalds Corporation (NYSE: MCD) is the worlds largest chain of fast-food restaurants, primarily selling hamburgers, chicken, french fries, milkshakes and soft drinks. ... KFC, also known as Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a food chain based in Louisville, Kentucky, known mainly for its fried chicken. ... SUBWAYÂ® is the name of a franchise fast food restaurant that mainly sells sandwiches and salads. ... Pizza Hut Inc. ...

Future developments

The Trafford Centre announced in October 2005, that permission had been granted for further expansion. The 200,000 sq feet extension, which will cost £70m, is to be known as 'Barton Square'. It will be located to the west of the main building and will be linked over a through road by an extensive glazed bridge. The new scheme will target the high-quality homewares market with a variety of units offering furniture, kitchens, bathrooms, home furnishings and other goods that are currently not available at The Trafford Centre. Retailers confirmes so far are Next Home, M&S Home, British Home Stores and Dwell. A further 630 free parking spaces will also be provided. Construction is well underway on this development, which is expected to open in Spring 2008. Further adjacent vacant ground exists for future expansion of Barton Square.

Marks and Spencer also will be extending its current store over to Barton Square, whilst also keeping its newly extended main store open in Peel Avenue in the centre. The Marks and Spencer Home store will be one of the first M&S homesware stores to open in UK at Barton Square in Spring 2008, along with a new Habitat store for Manchester. Marks and Spencer plc (known also as M&S and sometimes colloquially as Marks and Sparks) is the largest retailer in the United Kingdom by sales. ... Habitat is a retailer of household furnishings which operates its own stores in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, and has franchise outlets elsewhere. ...

Transport links

The Trafford Centre is situated just off the M60 (Junctions 9 and 10). The popularity of the centre has frequently resulted in traffic congestion on the M60's Barton High-Level Bridge, which it is hoped will be alleviated by a new link road, running adjacent to the M60 and crossing the ship canal on a new swing bridge. Planning permission was granted in 2006 for the construction of a 600-metre canal linking the Trafford Centre with the Manchester Ship Canal, allowing for the introduction of a water taxi service to and from Salford Quays. Construction is expected to take about a year, although no official start date has yet been announced for the project.^[3] Plans also exist for a Metrolink service to the centre, pending government funding. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2138x939, 290 KB) Welcome signs at the entrance to the Trafford Centre File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2138x939, 290 KB) Welcome signs at the entrance to the Trafford Centre File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... // The M60 motorway is an orbital motorway circling the urban body of Manchester, a city in the United Kingdom. ... The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ... , Salford Quays is an area of Salford, in Greater Manchester, England, near the end of the Manchester Ship Canal. ... A Metrolink tram in Manchester city centre. ...

Services from the centre's bus station link it with Manchester, the surrounding towns, the Metrolink station at Stretford, and Manchester Airport. There are 10,000 car spaces and 350 coach spaces. This article is about the City of Manchester in England. ... A Metrolink tram in Manchester city centre. ... Stretford is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Trafford, in Greater Manchester, England. ... For City Airport Manchester, UK, see City Airport Manchester. ...

Shop opening times

The Trafford Centre is open Monday–Friday from 10 am – 10 pm, Saturday 10 am – 8 pm (some stores opening at 9 am) and Sunday 12 noon – 6 pm with some stores open from 11 am. Stores extend their closing times to 11 pm on weekdays in the run-up to Christmas.

References

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