NOW for a bit of common sense at Great Northern following the row about a ‘giant sci-fi insect’ of a building turned massive Llama.
There’s loads of mega stuff about to hit the streets of Manchester
After nine months of toing and froing with the city planning office, the folks behind Manchester’s hugely successful Friday Food Fight and Junkyard Golf events have received a thumbs up from Town Hall to begin work on their next project, Beat Street, sorry, BEAT STREET (lower case does not suffice) – first revealed here by Confidential back in July.
Billed as a ‘crazy mashed-up food and drink street’, BEAT STREET will see a sleepy 9000 square foot area on Deansgate Mews (the untapped outdoor alleyway running from the AMC to the Beetham) enlivened with a bar and street food market featuring seven ‘micro-diners’, three bars, an outside grill and an all-weather roof terrace from 11am to 3am daily.
Beat Street's Lyndon Higginson, Chris Legh and James Murphy
Beat Street organisers Chris Legh, Lyndon Higginson and James Murphy have previously voiced plans for a Caribbean jerk joint, a British-only craft beer bar and a ‘late-night drinking den’ on the drag, though finalised traders and concepts will be unveiled before opening in mid-June.
“It feels like gaining planning approval has taken forever but now we’re on the home straight and looking to start work on BEAT STREET next week,” Higginson told us. “To say we’re excited would be an understatement – we’re totally buzzing!
“We’re essentially opening a new food and drink street in the city centre, creating multiple food and bar offerings alongside brand new arts and events spaces.
“There’s loads of mega stuff about to hit the streets of Manchester… watch out for the seven metre dinosaur.”
BEAT STREET will launch on Deansgate Mews in mid-July.
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