- Europe’s largest indoor sports and entertainment venue.
- Flexible capacity from 4,500 to 20,000
- At the heart of Manchester’s youth and entertainment scene
for the past 10 years.
- Ideal location for public access. Actually built over the city’s
main regional station, and the hub for the Metro tram. Multi storey
car park attached.
- Greater Manchester has over 2,500,000 residents. Over 5 million
within one hour’s drive time.
- Nominated ‘International Venue of the Year’ by the concert
industry for each of the past 4 years.
- Headed ‘Top 100 Arenas’ worldwide in the California based ‘Pollstar’ magazine
for 2003, 2004 – based on concert tickets
- Major sports venue – built as part of Manchester’s Olympic
Bid 2000. Venue for Commonwealth Games 2002. 4 international championship
boxing events per year.
- Excellent broadcast links. Venue of choice for live indoor events
by Sky Sports.
- Manchester is northern Regional Centre for both BBC and ITV broadcasters.
Each has nightly 30 minute news programmes offering excellent coverage.
- Manchester Evening News (venue title sponsor) has the second highest
circulation of any provincial newspaper in the UK. Has already expressed
interest in media partnership.
- 5 Commercial and 1 BBC Local stations cover Greater Manchester
- Over 4,300 hotel beds within 10 minutes of venue (City Centre)
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