It will consist of landscaped boulevards with new leisure, retail, office and residential units including 834 apartments, a multiplex cinema, a 25-storey residential tower, cultural space and underground car park.

Dale End and the Priory Shopping Centre will be demolished.

Work on the Martineau Galleries has been deferred until at least 2014 because of budget cuts.

It will be a high-rise urban village centred on two public squares with 550 apartments, 550,000 square feet of grade A office space, retail, restaurants and cafe units.

Two tower blocks, Block I and Block M, which contain a total of 340 apartments, have already been completed; however, plans for a 13-storey magistrates court have been deferred indefinitely (News Archive 29/05/10).

However, this project has been postponed indefinitely due to budget cuts.

It will link Moor Street Station and Curzon Street.

The centrepiece will be Freeman Square: a landscaped plaza with abundant greenery, mature trees, external seating, high-quality paving, a coffee pavilion, food store and sandwich shop.

Freeman Square will be flanked by high-rise commercial & residential towers containing 250 apartments, 15,000 square feet of retail space, and 450,000 square feet of grade A office space.

The development will incorporate two pre-existing buildings: the Fox & Grapes pub and an Edwardian office block called Island House.

Work began in October 2010 and the project, which has been costed at £13 million, will be completed in 2013 (News Archive 01/10/10).

It will terminate in a public square that will provide a new setting for the disused Curzon Street Railway Station.

It will feature a 110-metre observation gallery, a 190-metre platform, external glass lifts, wall-climbing observation pods and a slow-revolving gyro-glass tower.

Visitors will be able to sky jump, bungee jump and walk on a ledge around the tower without a handrail (but with a safety harness).

The base will contain a leisure park with bars, cafes, retail outlets, restaurants, three rides, a climbing wall, and 260-room hotel.

It would have contained new buildings for the Conservatoire, the Adrian Boult Hall and the Birmingham Institute of Art & Design.

However, the designated site is now required for a high-speed railway station and so the new campus will be built on a smaller alternative site next to Millennium Point. It will contain just one building for the Institute of Art and Design. Plans were submitted in February 2011 (News Archive 07/02/11).

The main entrance will be on the west side, by Moor Street Station, with a second entrance on the east side, by the historic Curzon Street Station.

The new station will contain 3 island platforms with 6 platform faces; each face will be 415 metres long and 10 metres wide; the platforms will bridge existing roads.

The concourse will be one level above the platforms; escalators, lifts and travelators will provide full access.

Construction will take 4-5 years and is unlikely to begin before 2018.

The high-speed track will be on the north side of the existing cross-city line.

Most of the required land is derelict; however, Curzon Gate student village, which was only completed in 2008, may have to be demolished.

It will be attended by around 350 students aged 14-19 and will specialise in digital media and the creative and performing arts.

In January 2010, plans for the new building were criticised as bland, uninspiring and resembling an office block (News Archive 28/01/10).

Work began in December 2010 and was completed in August 2011.

It will contain over 700,000 square feet of grade A office space, 90,000 square feet of retail space, 50,000 square feet of office space for small and medium enterprises, and 350,000 square feet of residential space.

Outline planning permission has been granted for 487 residential units in a range of styles.

Phase one, which is now complete, contains 748 student flats managed by UNITE.

These flats may have to be demolished to make room for HS2.

This hotel, which should open in February 2012, features a distinctive triangular podium and contains bar, restaurant, conference and gym facilities.

Two other 60-metre 18-storey residential blocks, the William Murdoch and James Watt Residences (formerly Blocks A and B), were completed in August 2011.

These houses were built in 1779 and were subsequently extended and converted into workshops.

They were were vacated in the 1990's and are probably beyond economic repair (News Reports 15/09/10).

This project, which has been costed at £16.5 million, is scheduled for completion in October 2012 (News Archive 19/03/11).