The Ibis Hotel occupies the mid-section of the Portland Street block between Princess Street and Dickinson Street.  This block was once made up warehouses but the Manchester Blitz of 1940 destroyed all but the one that still occupies the Princess Street corner.  The aerial photograph below, taken in 1953, shows the site of today's Ibis Hotel being used as a car park.

In 1888, as you can see on my version of a map from that date, it was a shipping warehouse above ground and a packing warehouse in the basement.