MIPIM 2016: Complex Development Projects has unveiled plans to create a £20m Eco Riverside Business Park in Coventry, as part of wider proposals to create a major new heritage trail in the city.
CDP, the company behind Electric Wharf, Fargo Village and the regeneration of Far Gosford Street, plans to create the 100,000 sq ft office park along the River Sherbourne from Far Gosford Street to Charterhouse.
Plans are at an early stage but are being showcased today at MIPIM.
The environmentally-friendly buildings will be targeted at creative industries, innovation and information technology firms.
The project is part of the overall vision by Historic Coventry Trust to create a 70-acre heritage park centred on the restoration of the 14th-century Grade 1 Charterhouse and to highlight buildings of national importance including Joseph Paxton’s Arboretum Cemetery and the listed viaduct designed by Robert Stephenson. The development will provide a naturalised riverside walk from the city centre to the heritage park.
CDP’s Ian Harrabin said: “The development will set a new benchmark for eco-buildings in Coventry and Warwickshire area. There will be a variety of building types catering predominantly for SME owner-occupiers, and it will be overtly environmentally friendly.”
There is currently a chronic undersupply of office space for small businesses close to the city centre and the university, added Harrabin.
The Coventry and Warwickshire MIPIM Partnership comprises Friargate, Jaguar Land Rover, the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership, Barberry, Study Inn, CEG, the Coventry and Warwickshire Development Partnership, HOIRBA-MIRA, Coventry University, University of Warwick, City Fibre, Wasps, Deeley, Downing and Complex Development Projects.
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