Smithfield Birmingham transformation, West Midlands commercial property regeneration, English city renewal
Smithfield Birmingham regeneration news
26 Jan 2023
Plans for transformation of Smithfield Birmingham submitted for approval
Location: Birmingham, West Midlands, central England, UK
Masterplanners: Prior+Partners
Design: David Kohn Architects ; dRMM ; Intervention Architecture ; Haworth Tompkins Architects ; Minesh Patel Architects ; RCKa
Festival Square designed: James Corner Field Operations
Festival Square event aerial view:

Smithfield Birmingham Redevelopent, West Midlands
Designs for a landmark scheme that will regenerate Smithfield Birmingham have been submitted to the City Council, following an extensive consultation on the proposals. The site played a central role in the hugely successful Commonwealth Games last summer, during which it hosted several games venues as well as the Smithfield Festival. Now this 17-hectare development in the historic heart of the city is set to transform Birmingham and create major economic opportunities, including an estimated 8,000 new jobs.
This once in a generation opportunity has the potential to reshape Birmingham?s city centre. A market has operated on the site for over 200 years and, continuing this long history, the new scheme will provide a home for the city?s historic Bull Ring markets, which will celebrate Birmingham?s roots as the ?city of a thousand trades?. This will form an iconic new centrepiece for the city centr...