Aldi and PureGym to take over long-vacant Ordsall Morrisons
A 50,000 sq ft supermarket on Trafford Road that has been empty since 2016 is the subject of redevelopment plans.
Discount supermarket chain Aldi and exercise chain Pure Gym are eyeing the former Morrisons supermarket in Salford’s Ordsall area, according to plans submitted to the city council for the subdivision of the store.
The Aldi would occupy 24,200 sq ft and the Pure Gym would span 17,500 sq ft. A third flexible 3,400 sq ft unit with no end-user yet identified would also be created.
Landlord RC Trafford Road, which is controlled by Elliot Castle and Henry Fordham and acquired the site for £6.1m in 2022, is leading the project.
Fordis Capital and Mason Partners are advising the landlord. To learn more about the project search for reference number PA/2025/1098 on Salford City Council’s planning portal.
Morrisons closed its Trafford Road store nearly a decade ago as part of a cost cutting drive just four years after it opened.
The Morrisons was built as part of the wider £150m Radclyffe Park regeneration project approved in 2010. Other elements of the scheme included 156-bed Travelodge, 11 retail units and 114 homes. LPC Living was the developer.
Good news for the citizens of Ordsall and Salford Quays. Aldi will do really good in that area.
By Salford Born and Bred.
There is already an Aldi less than a mile away at White City and another at Salford Shopping Centre. Wouldn’t this location be better used to relocate some of the shops that will lose their place at Regent Road Retail park when it is redeveloped?
By PSR Simon
Only a 10- to 15-minute walk from the existing PureGym Exchange Quay. Seems extremely close. Looking at the planning portal, there is an existing outline consent to redevelop the existing PureGym, so I wonder if that is still going ahead and this will be a replacement.
By Anonymous
Will they redesign the end of Phoebe street as with the way they have designed the round outside the chemist and the general parking it can barely flow now, nevermind being only entrance to two such big facilities
By Anonymous
Yes finally. The pure gym on exchange quay is absolutely rammed, people are queuing for machines it’s that busy. There is way too many people that go there. I have the pure gym app and sometimes there is 140 on a Tuesday night in the gym it’s ridiculously busy.
By Anonymous