The money will go towards transforming the Old Town and surrounding streets, including Frith Road, Church Street and Exchange Square.
The organisers said Selfridges and Harvey Nichols have confirmed they will take part in the activities which will be centred around Exchange Square.
The question lingering beneath such reforms is the same: Can an exchange square the need to make a profit with a mandate to run "free and fair" markets?
The project aims to attract local traders to the area to open businesses, set up pop-up shops and open a food court in the piazza in Exchange Square.
The exhibition boasts computer-generated "fly-throughs" of the new Corn Exchange, the new Exchange Square and the centrepiece of Manchester's rebuilt shopping area - the biggest Marks and Spencer store in the world.
Five people were arrested when violence erupted in Exchange Square during the 2006 World Cup and more than 40 Rangers fans were detained in 2008 after a screen failed in Piccadilly Gardens.
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The last of the demolition work on the old Manchester city centre will be finished this year, with Exchange Square, Cathedral Street, the Corn Exchange and Marks and Spencer open by November 1999.
One reason why it is nicer to walk down Barcelona's Ramblas than through Manchester's Exchange Square is the weather and not even the most inventive council can do much about the infamous Mancunian rain.
Rather than waiting for the numerous mobile payment systems from Google, Isis, the Merchant Exchange, Square, and others to get traction and see which thrives or is dies on the vine, launching such a mobile payment solution would enable Apple to bring mobile payments to the market today.
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Smaller equipment is better: An extra couple of square feet in an exchange's data center can cost thousands of dollars per month.
But the protesters currently camped in the churchyard of St Paul's Cathedral, near Paternoster Square, the Stock Exchange's home since 2004, reflect a broader anger that makes it tricky for politicians to speak up for finance.
It was Canon Fraser who told police to allow the protesters to set up camp outside the cathedral on 15 October after they had been prevented from camping by the London Stock Exchange in privately-owned Paternoster Square near St Paul's.
The new Shanghai stock exchange is built in the shape of a hollowed square to help trap positive energy, a nod to the ancient geomantic rituals of feng shui.
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About 17% of the 6.8 million square feet of office space north of the Interstate 285 exchange is vacant.
Square, he says, is about that communications channel, that exchange of value, that merchant-payor communication.
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