The company behind Liverpool’s first street food market is branching out to Birmingham.
IB Markets has applied to turn a vacant warehouse in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter into a 10,700 sq ft multi-cultural food market across two floors.
The building at 26 Mary Ann Street was a welding machine shop warehouse, part of the former Taylor & Challen metalworks. The proposals are part of a wider mixed-use development for three buildings within the Mary Ann Street part of the Taylor & Challen site. The Fabrication Building will be turned into a microbrewery, while plans are in to redevelop the Jackson Froggatt building into homes.
A planning statement from TPS, which is working on the proposals, said IB Markets wants to “revitalise and reuse historic buildings within vibrant areas of the city’s Jewellery Quarter to provide a place where everyone is welcome to enjoy the city’s culinary delights”.
Architects at R2A Studio, which has designed the food hall, said: “We aim to celebrate the existing building, allowing people to experience a space that has previously been inaccessible to them. Repurposing such buildings is an important part of urban design and we hope this will encourage further development.”
IB Markets runs the Baltic Market in Liverpool, on the redeveloped Cains Brewery site.
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