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... where we left off....
 
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Rubicon Casino want to expand into the vacant building next door, part of what was to be Summer Row. This however throws doubt on Wolverhampton Racecourse's racino, as the city only has one new casino license.


Roger Kidd

Left: the vacant building, former bingo hall and nightclub; right: the current Rubicon casino

Far rear: former Rackhams department store
 
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Wolverhampton University Extension

http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/12/12/university-of-wolverhampton-in-45m-expansion/25861588/

New building in Molineux Street.
Extension to the MB Building on Stafford Street.
New main entrance in the George Hotel (Varsity) Building.

The university’s landmark MB building in Stafford Street will be extended into the main city centre campus, with its two-storey buildings raised to four storeys.



The former Varsity bar, bought by the university earlier this year, will be used to relocate student support services from the MB building and will eventually become the main entrance.



Meanwhile in a £15m scheme a new business school will be built in Molineux Street, close to the Wolves ground, offering more classrooms, post graduate suites and catering.



But there will be a £250,000 floodlit sports pitch in North Road near Molineux for students at the university’s halls of residence.
 
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B&K to start £65m Wolverhampton Sainsbury’s job
Aaron Morby | Tue 18th December | 0:23


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Bowmer & Kirkland will start building work on a major Sainsbury’s superstore in Wolverhampton early next year.

The job has been on hold while supermarket giants Tesco and Sainsbury’s battled over a parcel of land at Raglan Street in Graisley.

The wrangle with Tesco, which owned 10% of the land, went all the way to the High Court and was only resolved when Tesco was told it could develop at store at the former Royal Hospital site in the city.

Preparation work has already started on the supermarket and a formal construction start date will be revealed in the new year.

Plans include a 90,000 sq ft superstore, an 810-space car park and petrol station as well as 45 homes and 85 apartments with gardens and car parking spaces.

Sainsbury’s project manager, Nick Alston, said: “We are delighted to have agreed a deal with Tesco and we look forward to returning to build the store.”

Tesco will create a new £60m supermarket on the former Royal Hospital site on the edge of All Saints. The site will include offices, retail and a museum celebrating the former hospital’s heritage.

B&K is also understood to be line for the hospital conversion job, which has been held up until the middle of next year because a public inquiry.
http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2012/12/18/bk-to-start-65m-wolverhampton-sainsbury-job/
 
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- Petrol station in Oxley is closing down. Frankly, it's about bloody time, they have been consistently charging up to 10p above the normal rate per litre for years, and have been diesel only for months.
- Wulfrun Centre having a brief repaint - looks actually quite nice now inside if you've been going through regularly. Little bit brighter, and nice and clean.
- The former clothes shop, was Badgers pet shop, is having something done to it - boards all around it.
- Something going on at the Midland Bank building next to the Art Gallery. Builders in, danger signs up.
 
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http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2013/02/11/hope-of-start-to-work-on-replacing-fox-hotel/

Work on a multi-million pound hotel earmarked for a landmark site in Wolverhampton city centre is set to start within months, developers have revealed.

Negotiations have been ongoing for years to build the 133-room seven-storey development on the site of the former Fox Hotel which was knocked down by the city council last year.

But now the developer, Cordwell Leisure Developments, has revealed it hopes to have moved onto the site by the middle of the year.

It is hoped that it will be taken on by international chain Hilton for its budget Hampton brand.


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Gone down to 7 storeys from 11; 133 rooms from 600...

This was the original plan:


dbkgroup.com
 
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I really hope this gets underway soon as the whole area really needs some regeneration. This is one of the four main gateways into Wolverhampton and its a real eyesore.
The ring road island was widened over two years ago and they still haven't finished the planting on the Penn road side of the island. Grey plastic sheeting has been left down and looks awful.
I wrote an email to the city planning department complaining about the lack of effort being put in to get this project finished and new ones in the area up and running.

Come on Wolves council make this happen and start improving our city!!!
 
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An actual development!

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Looks like they're trying to make Chapel Ash a shopping destination again, lots of new retail space here.

Good! I like to use the art shop in Chapel Ash for my supplies (with the odd cheeky stop at Subway), would be good to have another excuse to go there. Especially good given how awful that building looks at the moment.
 
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