Trinity Mirror Group’s search for a home for its Birmingham Post & Mail regional headquarters and printing presses has ended.
The group has acquired 6.2 acres (2.51ha) from ProLogis for £450,000 per acre on the north side of the Dunlop site, fronting Ashold Farm Road, in Erdington.
TMG has been scouring Birmingham for a site ever since it decided to move the newspaper from its prominent city centre headquarters in Colmore Circus last year.
A £70m mixed-use scheme is planned, including a link road which will provide access to the nearby Fort Parkway. The group’s office and industrial requirement for the Post & Mail is known to be around 139,000 sq ft (12,935 sq m) and Paul Dempsey, of Montague Evans, which is advising the group, said it plans to house other publications on the site.
Completion is due in mid 2004.
Meanwhile, Pillar Property and Parlison Properties have scaled down plans for the Post & Mail‘s existing Colmore Circus site.
The developers were planning an ambitious 700,000 sq ft (65,030 sq m) mixed-use scheme, but Parlison’s Jeremy Aitchison said: “Plans have changed slightly to make the scheme a bit smaller. We don’t know exactly how big it’s going to be yet; we’re still working up the proposals.”
EGi News 24/01/02
