Lifestyle
Manchester is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city, home to world class shops, outstanding sporting facilities, diverse restaurants, a kicking music scene and landmark galleries and museums. The renaissance of Manchester has helped create an enviable cultural infrastructure. The city’s standing as one of the world’s Top 50 Conference Destinations brings in many of the world’s most innovative business people. Shoppers are drawn by the world class shopping, including the Selfridges and Harvey Nichols department stores and an additional one million square feet of retail space. Its flagship sporting facilities include the new regional athletics stadium (part of the much bigger SportCity), and Urbis, the centre for urban culture. The city’s already formidable sporting reputation was further underlined when it hosted the 2002 Commonwealth Games and the 2003 UEFA Champions League Final. The newly merged University of Manchester – an internationally distinguished centre for research, innovation and learning – has a £300 million investment programme and a strategy to make it one of the world’s top 25
