Economy of Manchester, NH

Downtown Manchester's One City Hall Plaza and the all-black Hampshire Plaza stand 20 stories high and are the tallest New England buildings north of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Hampshire Plaza is shorter than City Hall Plaza by a mere 16 feet (4.9 m). Other major buildings include the 13-story New Hampshire Tower; the New Hampshire headquarters of Citizens Bank, called the Manchester Citizens Bank Tower, in the renovated and heightened former Amoskeag Bank building (at the original 10 stories, once Manchester's treasured nickname as Manchester's "skyscraper" for many decades in the early 20th century); the former Carpenter Hotel, at 12 stories, usurped the Amoskeag Bank's relished claim of Manchester's "skyscraper" a few decades later in that century; and Bank of America.

The Verizon Wireless Arena has become the centerpiece of downtown Manchester. The venue can seat slightly less than 12,000 patrons for concerts, and at least 10,000-seat configurations for sporting and other forms of entertainment. The Verizon is also home to the Manchester Monarchs, the local AHL affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings. The Northeast Delta Dental Stadium (formerly Merchantsauto.com Stadium) is a baseball park located on the Merrimack River in downtown Manchester and is home to the local AA baseball affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. Historic Gill Stadium supported professional minor-league baseball into the early 21st century and continues to be a viable and popular downtown venue for many sporting and entertainment events, seating nearly 4,000 patrons, depending on the event format.

In recent years there has been continual redevelopment of the Amoskeag Millyard and its residential Historic District. The increasing popularity of downtown living has caused many properties originally built as tenement housing for mill workers in the