The huge revamp of the Kendals department store has been hit with delays — meaning its owners now need to ask the council for more time to complete the work.
However, new documents also reveal the project will result in the loss of Mancunian landmarks — and that current tenants, House of Fraser, has benefitted from ‘effectively a rent-free lease’.
The project aims to convert the Kendal & Milne department store on Deansgate into a swanky office block, and demolish the adjoining King Street West multi-storey car park to make way for another office block, 14 storeys tall.
Updates on the work have been revealed in a new planning application to the city council, which seeks to ‘allow the development to be phased’.
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