Afflecks palace is a small piece of manchester history and culture, and by killing it off you destroy a small chunk of manchester's soul. maybe. Keep it.
No!!! We need somewhere to keep the moshers off the streets! Closing Afflecks would just be a shot in the foot for Manchester, what with its perpetual efforts to be the most cultured city outside of London. It's a bloody world-renowned tourist attraction for God's sake. Sort it out, mate.
Lose Afflecks, You lose what's different about the great city. It's not just Afflecks. That area of Manchester gives the creativity that has inspired and established many people. Lose Afflecks, lose the Northern Quarter.
Afflecks is as much a social and cultural hub as it is retail premises. Its closure would be a great loss to Manchester and the increasing threat to the city's individuality and identity.
We don't need any more flats. Afflecks is also one of the few places hosting independent businesses. If this closes, we'll be just another clone town full of chain stores.
Closing Afflecks is a terrible idea. It also makes no sense. Why build more flats in an area that's devoted to live music and bars? It's like putting a bed and breakfast in the basement of the Apollo. Or something.
Manchester wouldn't be such an attractive place for the property developers if they didn't have the cultural legacy created by places like Afflecks Palace to trade off...it's all about money to them, but you can't put a price on cultural heritage. It'd be like living in a Manchester theme park, trading off what used to be there.
Afflecks is one of the main reasons why Manchester is Manchester - unique - different and making trends and creating a different look - we should cherish our differences not what a bland city centre......
Where will all the emo kids go? we'll have to see them on the streets more, looking all miserable and that. Also its one of the last pieces of oddity left in the city centre, that hasn't been turned into wankerpartments.
In doing this, you will just proliferate the continuing sapping of Manchester culture by a morally bankrupt company that would rather build car parks and dull, lifeless flats for 'young professionals' than keep anything of meaning.
Don't be such cunts.
It really would be a tragedy to let Affleck's close. I really do not like the way things are going in Manchester and to let Affleck's go could open the floodgates to other similar actions.
Afflecks Palace is esstential in Manchester for the alternative culture and social space it provides. Without it all those kids that spend their time browsing the stores and in the cafe will have no where to go other than street corners and the already full Picadilly Gardens or Urbis.
Although I support the re-generation of Manchester city centre, getting rid of Afflecks Palace would be like getting rid of what Manchester is all about culture and diversity.
as has been said, it's a world famous attraction. my cousin's fiance was over recently from australia and without me saying a word, she wanted to go to afflecks before anywhere. have a word.
Keep afflecks open its a place off its own there is nothing else like it and these are the kind of things that set our city appart every time i have been in its busy if you want flats get some free land not some thats already being put to great use.
manchester would not be the same without afflecks palace, its always been here as long as i can remeber. please dont let it go because manchester will loose another part of its identity!!
I have had enough of clone town outlets like Boots, Starbucks, Clinton Cards, Macdo, spreading like a disease wiping out local business. I hope more and more people boycott the clones and the brand culture and use locally owned businesses and markets.
I recently visited Afflecks after not having being there for about 10 years (due to living in another area). It's still as majical as ever and a great asset to Manchester.
The first time I ever came to Manchester I visited Afflecks. It made me think the city had more to offer than the 'same-old, same-old' of any other place. I now live and work here; if places like Afflecks closed down I wouldn't have bothered and would probably move on as well.
is this the final nail in manchesters coffin? funny how they sell this place on it's youth & subcultural associations while stamping it all out. kindly stop the sterilisation of culture. mibbe the kids need to do more on their own terms outside capital? or is this city set to be renamed w***fester?
Don't let another institution & landmark that makes Manchester what it is disappear, like Boddingtons brewery. Removing buildings such as these robs Manchester of its soul.
