sentences:  The Beetham Tower was completed in the autumn 2006 and is the tallest building in the UK outside London.City centre regeneration coincided with the property boom of the 2000s with one urbanist remarking on ""the sheer number of cranes and the noise of the building work, with the sound of pneumatic drills in my ears wherever I went"".Manchester was granted city status in 1853 due to its rapid development and was the first to be granted such status since Bristol in 1542.