1 OXFORD ROAD CORRIDOR
tretching south from St Peter’s Square in the city centre lies the Oxford Road Corridor, a one square mile area which is home to 42,000 residents, 74,000 students and 8,800 businesses – plus accounts for 20 per cent of the city’s economic output. This collaborative project aims to be “Manchester’s cosmopolitan hub and world-class innovation district” by 2025. This shouldn’t be too hard given its pioneering history – it’s where Rutherford split the atom, Alan Turing invented the modern computer, and graphene
