Professional services firm PwC has moved its 2,000 Birmingham staff into a new office at One Chamberlain Square. The new locale is part of the multi-million Paradise redevelopment scheme in the city, and constitutes PwC’s largest regional office outside of London. of its ring-fenced bank, which will serve its personal and business customers, in Birmingham city centre.

Greater Birmingham is the UK’s leading centre for financial services outside London. It has the largest business, professional and financial services (BPFS) industry in the country, with more than 21,000 companies employing some 220,000 people in the region. The industry generates £15 billion annually for the local economy.

Phil Miller, chief executive of Miller Developments, added: "HSBC's commitment to Birmingham is great news for the city and their choice of 2 Arena Central is a tremendous boost for the development.

"This will enable us to push ahead with realising the full scale of the scheme and deliver HSBC’s requirements and our vision for this key site in the heart of the Enterprise Zone."

Professional services firm PwC has moved its 2,000 Birmingham staff into a new office at One Chamberlain Square. The new locale is part of the multi-million Paradise redevelopment scheme in the city, and constitutes PwC’s largest regional office outside of London.

Kevin Ellis, Chairman and Senior Partner, PwC UK said of the move, “This is PwC’s largest property investment outside London to date… By 2021 we plan to have added 1,000 new roles in Birmingham, and we’re moving quickly to reach this target with 700 of these new jobs already created. 

Global professional services firm PwC is headed to Paradise in the summer of 2019, as the company expands its presence in Birmingham, the UK’s second city. The Big Four giant has announced it will occupy the whole first building of the multimillion Paradise redevelopment scheme in Birmingham – shortly after news emerged that the firm was planning to close six other regional presences, elsewhere in the UK.

Bullring & Grand Central are THE shopping destination in Birmingham.

Part of the Bullring Estate, Grand Central is located above New Street Station and next to Bullring.

The centre offers brands including Hobbs, The White Company and Carluccio’s. With over 200 shops across the Bullring and Grand Central, Birmingham has become the ultimate shopping destination.

The £150 million Grand Central Birmingham above New Street station has taken 7 years to build as part as the New Street Station redevelopment. This  is considered a foodie hub as the number of restaurants and places to eat inside Grand Central is mind boggling and includes stylish restaurants, cafés and bars.

World largest public library cost £189 million to build. Described by its architect Francine Houben as a 'people's palace'.

The Library is 31,000 square metres, making it one of the largest public libraries in the world. The construction project included modern new back-of-house facilities for The Repertory Theatre, and in total the development comprises 35,000 square metres.

It is spread over 10 levels of varying size and usage. The building comprises a spacious entrance and foyer with mezzanine, lower ground level with indoor terraces, four further public levels and two outdoor garden terraces, a 'golden box' of secure archive storage occupying two levels, provision for staff offices and service plant on a further two levels and at the very top of the building a rotunda feature housing the Shakespeare Memorial Room

After recent development on student accommodation Toybox.

Another property developer Unite Students has unveiled its plans to build a new £40 million complex called International House, which will reach up to 14 storeys and contain 586 bedrooms, on a vacant plot in the city's Gun Quarter.