Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre — Local services in Rochdale

VERY RELAXED. After 50 years living in Rochdale, we moved away 2 years ago and this was our first visit back. Everywhere in the Exchange was smart, welcoming and looked fresh and well cared for. The lifts were SPARKLY clean and smelled clean too. Well done to management and to the cleaning staff, you have certainly raised the standard high. The folk serving in the shops seemed cheerier and more relaxed too. In fact Rochdale has been through some hard economic times but the town centre looks cleaner and more invigorated than we last remembered it. We are camping at Bury and have to say that sadly, Bury now looks very tired and shabby. Well done Rochdale. If you could now sort out a jolly market near the river and put some daytime coffee shops there too to be able to watch the world go by, with lively evening entertainment and restaurants/eating places along the esplanade, which is what everyone thought was in the original vision, then folk would come from miles around. In this area, there have always been too many nearby towns chasing the same shopping wallets ... Rochdale is more beautiful in the centre than Oldham, Bury, Middleton etc. Developed as an UPMARKET evening/nightime destination attraction around the river with visible security to deter drunken behaviour, free evening parking and serviced by the tram, it will attract more wallets and less scallywags! Some lights and some attractive small wildlife sculptures/scenarios down by the waters edge would look beautiful. Rochdale, you have a beautiful, quality looking town centre, now encourage your councilors to get brave...

This building has a good variety of shops pharmacy and seating areas dotted around for a rest. Costa coffee shop with a free toilet. Jewellery store with local traders in Rochdale, long time standing business..via the ramp near Icelands. Superdrug Poundland Iceland Clothing outlets Claires Accessories Mobile phone stores Holland & Barrett and wheelbarrow traders along the route also for bags purses and mobile accessories. Nail and eyebrow bar. Charity run store Emmaus with furniture bric a brac and some clothing. Delivery prices fair. This building is also wheelchair accessible to the front, Lift at the front near the doors, and to the back near Poundland and wide ramp down to the Memorial gardens. There are coin turnstile toilets via the ramp near Iceland. Disable toilet too. There is a car park on the roof. There is security in this building and the visible presence of a...

It's no Trafford Centre but it's OK. it's usually clean and has a fair security team inside. There's some high street brands such as Card Factory, River Island and H Samuel, there's independent shops, small supermarkets like Iceland, home bargains and a Costa Coffee. There's several shops empty including the huge Beales Department store that have potential to become something better. There's also the old markets area which could be converted. The centre has seen the introduction of the new JD Gym too. Soon a new shopping centre will be arriving in Rochdale (expected 2019). Hopefully the exchange will realise the competition, give the place a bit of a refurbishment and get some more high street brands in, otherwise, the shopping centre will...