page_title: Merseyway Shopping Centre
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Merseyway Shopping Centre / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Under Merseyway The River Mersey runs under Stockport town centre and the Merseyway Shopping Centre, which is built on these columns which rise from the riverbank. This walkway runs the length of the riverbank beneath the town.
context_page_description: Merseyway Shopping Centre is a shopping precinct in Stockport, England. Opened in 1965, and extensively refurbished in the 1990s, it is a large pedestrianised area built on stilts over the River Mersey with two levels of walkways giving access to the retail units.
  Merseyway is mostly an open air precinct, although the western end near Mersey Square was given a canopy in the 1990s and is now a small enclosed mall.
  The developers Hammerson owned the centre until 2003 when they sold the leasehold to property company Stockport Holdings Ltd., owned by the Jersey-based Halabi family trust.
  In 2009, the centre was placed into receivership.
  The anchor stores are Debenhams and Primark, with approximately 85 other retailers. To the south and east of the centre are the Peel Centre and the towns' historic market.
  Stockport attracts about 14 million visitors per year, making it a prominent shopping destination in the Greater Manchester Urban Area. Its catchment covers affluent areas of north Cheshire and south Manchester, competing with other major retail destinations in the area such as Manchester city centre, Ashton-under-Lyne and the Trafford Centre.
context_section_description: The centre was opened in 1965, as one of the first shopping precincts in the United Kingdom. Since then, it has undergone considerable development.
  In the 1990s, Merseyway was extensively refurbished including the creation a new area of covered mall at the western edge of the centre facing onto Mersey Square.
caption: Some of the supports beneath Merseyway
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