{"id":392361,"date":"2026-01-27T03:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392361\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T03:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T03:00:07","slug":"robert-de-niros-360m-skyscraper-will-be-tallest-building-outside-london-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392361\/","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":392362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,6871,1120,96,123,9056,1768,4037,147670,147674,147671,147669,147672,147673,3108,3783,20578,90384,56,54,55,5932],"class_list":["post-392361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-david-beckham","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-hollywood","tag-kim-kardashian","tag-manchester","tag-manchester-development","tag-new-building","tag-new-skyscraper","tag-nobu-hotels","tag-nobu-manchester","tag-nobu-restaurants","tag-nobu-uk","tag-oprah-winfrey","tag-restaurants","tag-robert-de-niro","tag-skyscraper","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-victoria-beckham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}