{"id":213894,"date":"2025-06-25T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213894\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T19:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T19:09:12","slug":"15-years-ago-he-made-a-prediction-about-manchester-that-proved-correct-now-he-has-made-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/213894\/","title":{"rendered":"15 years ago he made a prediction about Manchester that proved correct – now he has made another"},"content":{"rendered":"

He also believes Greater Manchester should be renamed<\/p>\n

19:38, 25 Jun 2025Updated 19:38, 25 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

Mike Ingall, Allied London chair, is the brains behind Spinningfields and St John’s developments(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

Manchester city centre \u2018could\u2019 explode with another 150,000 people in \u201810 years time\u2019, according to the brains behind the Spinningfields<\/a> – who believes Greater Manchester should be renamed.<\/p>\n

Allied London chair Mike Ingall told a launch party for the opening of Campfield, attended by council leader Bev Craig, and the chief executives of the council and Andy Burnham<\/a>\u2019s office, he believed \u2018in 10 years time there could be 250,000\u2019 living in the city centre.<\/p>\n

Mr Ingall has previous form for predicting the rise of the city\u2019s population \u2014 and doing so correctly.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur forecast was by 2025 there will be 100,000 people,\u201d he added at the party on Wednesday (June 26), having told journalists earlier in the year \u201815 years ago I\u2019m on the record saying that Manchester city centre<\/a>\u2019s population will get to 100,000\u2019.<\/p>\n

The latest estimates put town\u2019s population as very close to 100,000, a remarkable rise from the less than 500 souls who called it home in 1990.<\/p>\n

Mr Ingall also used his keynote address to suggest Greater Manchester should rebrand to \u2018Manchester, G.M.\u2019, citing the precedent of renaming the American capital from District of Columbia to Washington, D.C. \u2018120 years ago\u2019.<\/p>\n

(Image: LDRS)<\/p>\n

He first signalled his intention to use the brand for tech start-up incubator \u2018Exchange\u2019, before adding: \u201cThe energy politically has gone from Greater Manchester to Manchester.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe tank of petrol is full in Manchester and the engine is ready to start. Greater Manchester is not quite on that journey. Our vision is to spread Campfield into the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy supporting the political agenda of growth, you could set yourself a target. There\u2019s a city in Colombia called Medellin which was in 2013 the most innovative city in the world after Escobar\u2018s destruction. They did it through public buildings in strategic locations.<\/p>\n

How Campfield looks inside now(Image: Manchester Evening News)<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we are all into growth, there\u2019s no reason to say in 10 years time Manchester, G.M. could be the most innovative regional city in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campfield, the new name for a series of studios, offices, and a start-up \u2018incubator\u2019 in the former Upper and Lower Campfield Market Halls on Liverpool Road, would be at the centre of that effort, he added.<\/p>\n

Council leader Bev Craig would not be drawn on the calls to rename the city-region, but said she could not \u2018think of a better representation of the history, present, and future of Manchester than this building\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the week we lost Hotspur Press, it\u2019s good to show what our history means to us,\u201d she added, referencing the multi-million-pound restoration project to breathe new life into Campfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He also believes Greater Manchester should be renamed 19:38, 25 Jun 2025Updated 19:38, 25 Jun 2025 Mike Ingall,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8813],"tags":[279,748,1285,393,4884,2465,8086,29712,1286,285,1170,1290,1288,1026,1289,16,15,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-213894","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manchester","8":"tag-bolton","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-bury","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-manchester","14":"tag-manchester-city-centre","15":"tag-manchester-development","16":"tag-oldham","17":"tag-politics","18":"tag-rochdale","19":"tag-salford","20":"tag-stockport","21":"tag-tameside","22":"tag-trafford","23":"tag-uk","24":"tag-united-kingdom","25":"tag-wigan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114745584423563852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}