morestoreysplease
February 7th, 2011, 09:24 PM
This could be a nice place to discuss this and be a portal for local businesses and thinkers to come up with some ideas for this brilliantly positioned site with a nice flat surface and be the first landmark of the city viewed from approaching trains.
High Speed Rail station site could be used for outdoor events.
by Jasbir Authi, Birmingham Post
Feb 3 2011
The site of the proposed high speed rail station in Birmingham is being marketed as an ideal temporary outdoor events space for potential businesses.
Developers are looking for businesses to come forward to utilise the 10-acre site next to Millennium Point until the Government confirms if it is pushing ahead with building the station for the high speed link from London to Birmingham from 2020.
The site, dubbed the Curzone, is being marketed as an area where businesses could access a potential 30 million customers on their doorstep.
It will sit next to the proposed Eastside Park, the first new city centre park in Birmingham for a century. Work on the park is due to take place in the spring. Firms Development Securities and Grainger have come up with the idea of utilising the site.
John Griffiths, director at GBR Phoenix Beard and joint agent on the scheme with CBRE, said: “This location offers huge potential for operators to have a visible, city centre presence right in the very heart of Birmingham’s cultural hub.
“Situated next to one of the city’s key visitor attractions and what will soon be the city’s only park, we are expecting to see a high level of interest in this site that offers masses of scope and connectivity for a range of uses and occupation.”
With a dearth of outdoor event space in the city, the site presents an opportunity for the people of Birmingham and its millions of visitors to benefit from exciting new attractions, he said.
Neil Rami, chief executive at Marketing Birmingham, said: “It is great to see such a creative interim plan in place to take this key site forward while the HS2 plans are confirmed.
“Birmingham is a vibrant city and the right use of this central site could help further boost the city’s growing visitor economy.”
Discussions are already under way with a number of potential operators and the clock is now set for all parties to come forward by March 25 with ideas on how to use the site.
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/w...5233-28105656/
High Speed Rail station site could be used for outdoor events.
by Jasbir Authi, Birmingham Post
Feb 3 2011
The site of the proposed high speed rail station in Birmingham is being marketed as an ideal temporary outdoor events space for potential businesses.
Developers are looking for businesses to come forward to utilise the 10-acre site next to Millennium Point until the Government confirms if it is pushing ahead with building the station for the high speed link from London to Birmingham from 2020.
The site, dubbed the Curzone, is being marketed as an area where businesses could access a potential 30 million customers on their doorstep.
It will sit next to the proposed Eastside Park, the first new city centre park in Birmingham for a century. Work on the park is due to take place in the spring. Firms Development Securities and Grainger have come up with the idea of utilising the site.
John Griffiths, director at GBR Phoenix Beard and joint agent on the scheme with CBRE, said: “This location offers huge potential for operators to have a visible, city centre presence right in the very heart of Birmingham’s cultural hub.
“Situated next to one of the city’s key visitor attractions and what will soon be the city’s only park, we are expecting to see a high level of interest in this site that offers masses of scope and connectivity for a range of uses and occupation.”
With a dearth of outdoor event space in the city, the site presents an opportunity for the people of Birmingham and its millions of visitors to benefit from exciting new attractions, he said.
Neil Rami, chief executive at Marketing Birmingham, said: “It is great to see such a creative interim plan in place to take this key site forward while the HS2 plans are confirmed.
“Birmingham is a vibrant city and the right use of this central site could help further boost the city’s growing visitor economy.”
Discussions are already under way with a number of potential operators and the clock is now set for all parties to come forward by March 25 with ideas on how to use the site.
http://www.birminghampost.net/news/w...5233-28105656/