{"id":723197,"date":"2026-01-27T02:21:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/723197\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:21:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:21:11","slug":"robert-de-niros-360m-skyscraper-will-be-tallest-building-outside-london-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/723197\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert de Niro’s \u00a3360m skyscraper will be tallest building outside London | UK | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

When complete, the 76-storey Nobu Manchester building will surpass the current tallest skyscraper outside London \u2014 currently Deansgate Square’s South Tower \u2014 and become the third tallest in the UK.<\/p>\n

The 246-metre tall skyscraper is set to include a 160-room hotel, 452 privately-owned serviced residences and a Nobu restaurant. Work is set to begin on the new \u00a3350million tower sometime this year, with the building expected to be complete before 2030.<\/p>\n

“I look forward to coming back when it is finished, if not before,” the star said in November 2025, as per the BBC<\/a>. “I think it is going to take six years and I plan to be around.”<\/p>\n

He continued: “I haven’t seen the city yet but I’d like to come back. Everyone is very nice, we’re having a very nice time. It’s great being here in Manchester because it has real character, we’re proud to be part of it.”<\/p>\n

Nobu Manchester development<\/p>\n

The Nobu Manchester project also includes a second building. The 23-storey building on Manchester’s Great Bridgewater Street will include 133 residences aimed at the affordable homes market.<\/p>\n

The skycrapper marks the company’s first hotel and residence in the UK. The restaurant in Manchester will be the firm’s second UK location after Nobu London.<\/p>\n

The BBC reports Manchester City<\/a> Council leader, Bev Craig, said: “It’s not everyday you watch Robert De Niro take out an apartment in Deansgate is it?”<\/p>\n

She hailed the project as a “symbol that international businesses are choosing Manchester”, adding: “It is a boost \u2014 we’ve said for a long time we wanted to be a world-class city and if you want to be a world-class city you’ve got to get global names.<\/p>\n

“The fact we are seeing global names \u2014 not just actors \u2014 but global businesses that only go to cities where they will be successful is a big boost for Manchester.”<\/p>\n

What is Nobu?<\/p>\n

The Nobu brand began as a Japanese-Peruvian restaurant co-founded by the actor, chef Nobu Matsuhisa, and businessman Meir Teper in 1994.<\/p>\n

When De Niro, a regular customer at Matsuhisa’s Los Angeles restaurant, first proposed opening a restaurant together in the late ’80s, he turned him down. But the chef eventually came round to the idea and a celebrity hotspot was born.<\/p>\n

The hospitality empire has expanded to over 50 restaurants and 40 hotels around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When complete, the 76-storey Nobu Manchester building will surpass the current tallest skyscraper outside London \u2014 currently Deansgate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3939],"tags":[4021,4020,109,4022,77,498,31697,2465,29712,215657,215661,215658,215656,215659,215660,7723,280,7791,99527,16,15,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-723197","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-david-beckham","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-hollywood","14":"tag-kim-kardashian","15":"tag-manchester","16":"tag-manchester-development","17":"tag-new-building","18":"tag-new-skyscraper","19":"tag-nobu-hotels","20":"tag-nobu-manchester","21":"tag-nobu-restaurants","22":"tag-nobu-uk","23":"tag-oprah-winfrey","24":"tag-restaurants","25":"tag-robert-de-niro","26":"tag-skyscraper","27":"tag-uk","28":"tag-united-kingdom","29":"tag-victoria-beckham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115964679480096767","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723197","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=723197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}