The hotel's website says that, "... In the heart of Manchester, the Holiday Inn Manchester - City Centre hotel offers free high speed WiFi, 298 bedrooms and 12 flexible meeting spaces. It's a short stroll from Manchester Piccadilly station and Manchester Central. City centre attractions can easily be reached on foot."

This used to be the site of a former Labour Exchange building.  The Pevsner Guide for Manchester described it as an art deco building, "... designed in  1936 by David Thompson for the Office of Works, but work was suspended until 1948 when E. H. Montegue Ebbs took over.  Brick, thin and cheap." 




The wrought iron detail above the central door, shown below,  suggests that the building may have opened in 1951.  After the government agency left the building it sat unoccupied and gradually decaying for a lot of years.

In 2014 the building was demolished.