New CGI images show how Wythenshawe’s town centre could look after a major transformation. There are plans to create a ‘new cultural hub’ in the town centre within the former Co-operative department store.
It will add to what’s already on show at the Civic Centre, and will ‘boost arts and creative industries in the wider Wythenshawe area’, according to Manchester City Council.
The hub would form part of a longer-term and much wider regeneration of the town centre, the authority added. It is currently seeking a partner to jointly develop the ‘Wythenshawe Civic Project’, as it is known. Try MEN Premium now for FREE...
just click here to give it a go The ambition — funded by a £20 million Levelling Up Fund grant — is to transform the 1970s shopping centre and surrounding areas by building a new public square, new shops, community and cultural space — plus around 1,600 new homes built on Council-owned land.
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