Transforming the city The opportunity awaits Getting Coventry - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Transforming the city

The opportunity awaits…  Getting Coventry ready for City of Culture 2021 and 2022 Commonwealth Games and creating a legacy for local people  Public realm improvements and culture – tools for regeneration – to maximise impact, accelerate change and boost investment  Combining the best of the old and the best of the new. Responding to the way city centres are changing  Being part of a multi-disciplinary team in a multi-cultural city responding to growth and regeneration to help shape our city

Are you ready for our challenge, do you have these qualities … • Leadership: Establishing a team that can respond effectively to the opportunities before us • Communication: Creating plans that people can support • Engaging: Changing perceptions – we want Coventry to be a place people want to live, work and visit • Strategic: Ensuring the city stays open for business while the work is underway • Motivated: Creating a place we can all be proud of • Dynamic: How to combine the best of the old and the best of the new

Joining the dots and linking up the previous improvements • Station to city centre • Outside Holy Trinity Church • Broadgate • Council House Square

The Wave • 6 high octane water slides • 25m swimming pool • Gym • Fitness Classes • Spa

Coventry Point • Demolition of tower blocks • Opening up views of Spires • Legibility • Improving skyline and environment

Removal of Nationwide • Re-establishing historic form • Opening up views • Improved legibility

Salt Lane Car Park • 600 space city centre car park • Linked to leisure destination

Cathedral Lanes • Re-branding and changing the use • Renovating existing under-utilised building • Improving F&B offer – 7 new restaurants

• Re-configuration of retail space • Removal of external escalator Upper • Enhanced public realm – welcoming, usable Precinct

Waterpark and Bull Yard • Re-configured open space • High quality usable public realm • Improved setting for Spire and Water Park

Railway • New multi-storey car park Station • Enhanced legibility and movement • Improved and high quality public realm

Friargate • High quality office space • Sustainable location • Inward investment

Former • Re-use of redundant retail store – locally listed Co-op • Mixed use at ground floor • Modern residential living at floors 1, 2 and 3 Building

• Re-use of redundant office • Retail / leisure space Coventry • 125-250 bed hotel • Student accommodation Telegraph • Residential apartments • Office Space

Student Residential 1070 self contained student Boys/Girls Club studios 586 student bed spaces 778 student bed spaces

Student Residential Ground floor F&B use Ground floor commercial space Ground retail use 600 student bed spaces 1116 student bed spaces 391 student bed spaces

Innovation further afield: • Expansion of JLR headquarters • Innovation in the motor industry at University of Warwick and Warwick Manufacturing Group • Low Carbon Technology Centre in association with Coventry University

Combining the best of the old with the best of the new