The Piccadilly Tower
 
The Piccadilly Tower will stand behind Piccadilly Station on Store Street and Ducie Street.  It will be taller than both the Lumiere Tower in Leeds, the King Edward Tower in Liverpool and the Beetham Hilton Tower on Deansgate.  The 188 metre tall mixed use building has been designed by architects Woods Bagot for Irish developer Ballymore.




The tower and two adjoining blocks will include 710 apartments, a 220 room five-star international hotel and 80,000 square feet of retail space, restaurants and bars.  The tower is the centre piece of a five-acre urban regeneration project that includes plazas and public spaces, historic canal frontage, a nine-metre grand stair and a bridge link to Manchester’s Piccadilly Station.

Below are two photographs showing the site of the proposed tower.








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The photographs below were taken in May of 2008 and show the ground preparation underway.








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Below are photographs taken in July of 2008

















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November 3, 2008


















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December 6, 2008
It looks like the credit crunch has resulted in the mothballing of the site. 




March 2009