Renaker readies designs for next Crown Street skyscrapers

Boom just 2 more 51 storey towers to add to the list, n o stopping the place atm. Cant wait to see the designs

When are DeTrafford going to get their project moving, Anyone have any updates on that one?

Brilliant…can’t wait to see the next addition to our mini Manhattan!

Looking forward to the design reveal, phase one is stunning! Good to see more city centre schools too!

That’s it where New York now lol

Manhattan has a waterfront Manchester does not have any qualities of NewYork

I’m all for this I really am…but where are the people coming from to buy/rent these apartments? Have i missed an announcement of 3000 jobs paying over £75k a year?

Looking forward to the designs? Let’s not pretend that they will be anything but bland, rectangular glass boxes as per every other SimpsonHaugh designed building in this city. Yawn.

We need another doctors and dentist too! Where are £6,500 people going to go when the existing ones are full up.

A landlocked skyline is never beautiful. They are just blocks.

Agree with Pinapple Chunx!

That’s ok, we have the backdrop of the Pennines and the Quays to go with the ‘proper’ Skyscrapers. Twin towers, nice, keep them coming.

What about the poor , Manchester has the highest crime and deprivation rate in the UK, these ugly blocks cannot resolved the real Manchester, the homeless and dirty streets are priority,

What about people on min wage average wage in Manchester is 900 cal month

Food banks

We’ve made it we’ve won the lottery, Manchester has more ugly blocks than Liverpool ,Birmingham , London . Wonderwall

I love Manchester, best city in England, skyscrapers are just the icing on the cake

Looks great

Taxi took me into Manchester last Thursday via Chester Road to piccadily train station, couldn’t believe the number of buildings be built – very impressive. Per the MANChattan skyline that’s obviously just a little bit of fun – self deprecating.
And, per Salfordlad (or is it scouse lad) I’d check your crime figures before you ‘contribute’ again.

I bet the designs will be……just like the previous schemes!

As an American living in the UK, Manchester is the best city to be part of outside of London.
Its a tough, gritty, diverse and vibrant city, for better or worse. It’s leading the way and will be for a while.
It’s just got more balls, sorry everyone else but you suck!

And a 1bed apartment 250k way to much, who’s buy them?, need to be more affordable for Us working class.

Great 2 c our great city continue to make our way in the world and cement its place as as UK’s 2nd city , long may it continue

@New Wave I couldn’t agree more, I can already tell what designs will look like… SQUARE and BORING

they will look fabulous and many more to be planned built. So to the Trolls, get back under your bridge ,your misery sustains me!

It’s Simpson Haugh. It will look the same as everything else. People seem to have this ideal that as long as its 50 stories its an a great building, superb, amazing, fantastic. Most of the tower are pretty dull visually. They give massing, but apart from that they’re nothing special to look at, at all, however you want to dress them up.

To all those saying that these apartments are “unaffordable”. They’re clearly affordable to someone else they wouldn’t be viable. Some people will just always find something to moan about, and it seems Place North West is the new place to go for people to have a whinge about things they know very little about.

Pineapple Chunx makes a good point. How many people are earning the wages to buy these? The thing is a semi in Old Trafford regularly costs £300.000 these days

Interesting article in the Sunday Times last week about the relationship between MCC and the owners of MCFC. Some points for reflection may I say and concern over some of the land deals if the article is true? Anybody else see it?

Lets say a couple on a combined salary of £60k can borrow up to 4-5 times their wage, they could afford a £260-300k property in these towers – no car or gym outgoings either. Life choices.

Visually, some of the towers being built in Manchester are the most interesting in the UK, including London.
Deansgate South for example might look like big blocky masses from afar (personally I like this anyway and it reminds me of some American cities) but when you get up close i.e. Castlefield you see how well the design works. It’s world class actually.
Whilst I agree that looking forward we need to create more varied designs, Manchester is only just starting and so is the skyline. I’m pretty sure a lot of other great cities started in the same way.

Manchattan but still no Central Park?Its a great city and bold in its outlook although does need more greenspace planned for its growing population of city dwellers.

The city of Manchester reminds me of a council house that’s has had an exstention and then thinks its above every e else in the street , please remove your rose tinted glasses at once, NY London ? Liverpool is a much well thought out city with better more quality high rises , the truth hurts.

Not the best looking City tbh .

When they use Manvmcheter to film scenes for New York London blockbuster films , then you can compare yourselves to major Cities lol

Looks like those predictions of boring boxes were a little off the mark.

To everyone that this applies to, why the negative comments about development in Manchester? Would you prefer nothing instead of something, albeit requiring some design improvement? Negative outlook usually = negative prospects and outcomes. Optimistic realists get things done by persuade others to believe visions can be accomplished and see opportunities in solving problems. The pessimistic realists just see problems and never leave the couch as it’s easier to rain over others aspirations. The optimists are why Manchester is where it is since 1997. And they are well rewarded for it so please forgive them if they ignore those who think everything was better in the “old days”. If you get rid of those rosy glasses, you may see that very few things were better in the “old days”. This is easily demonstrable but requires a bit of research and thinking, not regurgitating the echo chambers that you may be tempted to inhabit. I am open to looking at it from other perspectives but direct experience shows me that Manchester is a better place than it was 20 years ago. Stockport is now better than Manchester was 20 years ago, for example.

When Manchester is used for huge blockbuster films , and world class series such as The Crown , Victoria , War of the worlds and many more being filmed across my world famous city Liverpool then it can compare itself to the likes of NY London and Paris , other than that keep being deluded.

Manchester has already been used many times for New York Blockbuster Films, Netlfix series’ etc….do your research. Jared Leto in the City filming for a new Spiderman spin-off film is a recent example.

Loving all the comments on ‘boring square/rectangular buildings’ despite the fact one is literally called The Cylinder.

Good work there PNW commentators, as ever.

Weren’t they filming Captain America and Peaky Blinders in Manc earlier this year alone?
And why do you think the BBC and ITV are based here?
I take it you were joking, if not try removing the word ‘Liverpool’ from your Google searches and save us all from reading a rubbish comment.

For some cities, being a fill-in for New York is all they can aspire to. I’m glad Manchester aims higher

“Have i missed an announcement of 3000 jobs paying over £75k a year?
November 26, 2019 at 1:58 pm By Pineapple Chunx”

These towers don’t build themselves!

Most are unaffordable. No benefit to ordinary people struggling.