business Archive

  • City centre news – 22 November, 2010

    City centre news – 22 November, 2010

    News on Business, Crime, Digbeth, Library, and Paradise Circus

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  • City centre news – 16 November, 2010

    City centre news – 16 November, 2010

    News on Broad Street, Business, Christmas, HS2, New Street, and Transport

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  • The Big City Plan

    The Big City Plan

    The Big City Plan is the most ambitious, far-reaching development project in the UK, and seeks to define how more than 800 hectares of land in the city centre will be developed and used for generations to come. As well as outlining specific areas where the Council will concentrate its resources in the future, ‘Stage [...]

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  • City centre news, 24 September, 2010

    City centre news, 24 September, 2010

    The city centre news for 24 September: Contractors bid for Birmingham office space job FreeOfficeSearch.co.uk The £45 million Snow Hill railway station scheme has attracted proposals from Balfour Beatty, John Sisk, BAM Construct and Sir Robert McAlpine, the Construction Index reported. Comprising of four phases, this bid is to complete the second phase, where work [...]

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  • City centre news – 22 September, 2010

    City centre news – 22 September, 2010

    The city centre news for 22 September: NEC, ICC and Symphony Hall not for sale Birmingham Newsroom Birmingham City Council leader Cllr Mike Whitby tells BBC Radio WM Breakfast host Phil Upton stories that a number of the city’s assets are up for sale are wide of the mark. Birmingham dad reveals how son was [...]

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  • City centre news – 21 September, 2010

    City centre news – 21 September, 2010

    The city centre news for 21 September: Deadly weapons seized from the streets of Birmingham Birmingham Mail The haul, including a lethal MAC-10 machine pistol – similar to one used to kill innocent teenage party-goers Letisha Shakespeare and Charlene Ellis – was seized in a swoop on a lock-up in Nechells. Birmingham eyes asset sales [...]

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  • City centre news, 16 September 2010 (including Traffic disruption and road & parking closures due to papal visit)

    City centre news, 16 September 2010 (including Traffic disruption and road & parking closures due to papal visit)

    The city centre news for September 16, 2010: Traffic disruption and road & parking closures due to papal visit Birmingham City Council There will be some traffic restrictions in the Cofton Park area and parking restrictions on Lickey Road and Groveley Lane. There will also be some road closures near the Oratory on Hagley Road. Local residents will [...]

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  • City centre news – 6 September, 2010

    City centre news – 6 September, 2010

    The city centre news for September 6: Chance to become St John Ambulance cadet Birmingham Mail The charity is looking for youngsters between five and 10 to join their cadets and anyone aged between 10 to 18, to become Badgers, in Ladywood. Music firm is global hit Birmingham Mail Ditto Music, which recently turned down [...]

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