A MAJOR NEW VENUE in Manchester opens next year with the completion of a £12 million function suite, The Point, at Old Trafford, Lancashire County Cricket Club's ground, which will be capable of handling events for up to 1,000 people.
"When completed, The Point will be one of the largest purpose-built venues in the country," says the club's commercial director, Geoff Durbin. Incorporating many environmentally-friendly innovations and designed to a hi-tech specification it is, he claims, an event organiser's dream. "It's large, bright, eco-friendly, modern and with panoramic views of the Old Trafford cricket pitch," he says.