{"id":111750,"date":"2019-10-21T12:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/welcome-to-manc-hattan-how-the-city-sold-its-soul-for-luxury-skyscrapers\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T12:18:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T05:18:52","slug":"welcome-to-manc-hattan-how-the-city-sold-its-soul-for-luxury-skyscrapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/welcome-to-manc-hattan-how-the-city-sold-its-soul-for-luxury-skyscrapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Manc-hattan: how the city sold its soul for luxury skyscrapers"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGiant towers are sprouting up all over Manchester. But how will sky lounges and penthouse olive groves help the city\u2019s rocketing homelessness problem?\u2018Hell upon Earth\u201d is how Friedrich Engels described Manchester\u2019s Angel Meadow. This violent, squalid, disease-ridden district was one of the worst slums the revolutionary German thinker encountered on his tour of Victorian England. Everything about the place, he wrote in 1844, \u201carouses horror and indignation\u201d.Visiting today, he might be tempted to use the same words, for very different reasons. On either side of the leafy park, which undulates over the graves of 40,000 Victorian paupers, the bulky concrete frames of new apartment blocks are beginning to rise. They will ultimately become 17- and 22-storey slabs that will in turn be dwarfed by a 41-storey tower, all surrounding the park with a glacial wall of \u201cultra-sleek urban homes\u201d. And not a single one affordable.This is MeadowSide, a \u00a3200m development by the Far East Consortium, a Hong Kong developer registered in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands. This site \u2013 once the gateway to medieval Manchester and depicted in the paintings of LS Lowry \u2013 is being ripped up to make way for 756 luxury homes, many already sold off-plan to investors in Hong Kong. Brochures in the marketing suite describe it as a place \u201cwhere glass meets grass and concrete meets conkers\u201d. It\u2019s also where the forces of international capital meet a city seemingly open to investment at any cost. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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