Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture is preparing to mark the start of the festive season this November with a one-day Christmas celebration set to take place across the town centre.
17.10.2023 - 17:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
The transformation of a building once dubbed Stockport's ugliest has been completed with the opening of a new college for disabled adults.
Now known as The Mailbox, the four-storey building on A6 Wellington Road South between the junctions with Station Road and Exchange Street, was, for nearly 40 years, the town's Royal Mail sorting office.
When it was built in the 1970s, it was given extra reinforcement due to the risk of IRA letter bombs. The sorting office closed and moved sites in 2010, from when the building was vacant for nearly a decade.
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What was an iconic landmark then became an eyesore and was even described as the town's 'ugliest building' by the boss of the firm who began its redevelopment in 2019.
It has now been completely overhauled and become a key part of the £1 billion redevelopment of Stockport town centre, which has been labeled as 'the region’s ‘coolest, greenest, new urban village.'
The state-of-the-art development is now home to 117 'stunning' new one and two-bedroom apartments and 12,500 square feet of commercial space. There is an atrium at its heart a roof terrace with views across the town centre..
It also has an 18-metre high green 'living wall' covering the front and other parts of the exterior, which with 114,500 plants is the largest of its kind by surface area in the North of England.
There is also a co-working space and the final piece of the development has now been completed, a college for disabled young people embarking on their journey into adulthood.
What was once a furniture showroom has been
Greater Manchester’s Town of Culture is preparing to mark the start of the festive season this November with a one-day Christmas celebration set to take place across the town centre.
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