* The project was first dreamed up in 2000 in a bid to transform the centre of Bury for the new millennium.
* Construction began in May 2008.
* An average of £1 million a week has been spent on the project since.
* The construction site was the size of 40 Olympic swimming pools.
* At the height of the building work, up to 500 builders worked on it each day and the project has created 500 permanent jobs.
* There are 60 shop units served by 1,250 car parking spaces.
* Initially, there will be 113 one and two bedroom apartments sold overlooking the development.
* The AMF Bowling alleys had to be made by experts in USA and flown into Manchester.
* The tallest building, Marks and Spencer is nine storeys and over 90ft high.
* There are more than 200,000 paving slabs installed at the Rock.
* A scale model of the site in the Rock’s Welcome Centre, opposite Bury Fire Station, cost £60,000 to put create.
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