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Overview: Mailbox, Cube and Waterside
 
The Mailbox, Cube and Waterfront are mixed-use canalside developments in Westside, Birmingham.

They front the Birmingham and Worcester Canal as it makes a 90 degree westerly turn towards Gas Street Basin.

Overview: Mailbox
 
The Mailbox stands in a public square beneath Suffolk Street Queensway with a frontage on the Birmingham and Worcester Canal.

This site was previously occupied by the largest postal sorting office in the UK whiich, apart from its steel substructure, was demolished in the 1990's and rebuilt as a mixed-use development with bars, boutiques, hotels, restaurants, retail units and an underground car park.

BBC Birmingham moved to new studios at the Mailbox in 2004.

Wharfside Street @ Mailbox
 
Wharfside Street is a multi-level canalside boulevard at the Mailbox.

Most bars, restaurants and retail outlets at the Mailbox are located on Wharfside Street.

Bars and Restaurants @ Mailbox
 
The Mailbox contains the following bars and restaurants:

Bar Epernay, Bar Estilo, Bar Room Bar, Cafe Rouge, Caffe Gusto, Cote, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, Miller & Carter, Nandos, Pennyblacks, Pizza Express, Red Peppers, Shogun, Strada, The Oriental, Zizzi

Boutiques @ Mailbox
 
The Mailbox contains the following boutiques:

All Saints, Aquascutum, Daniel Footwear, Emporio Armani, Fat Face, Gieves and Hawkes, Harvey Nichols, Hugo Boss, Jaeger, LK Bennett, Thomas Pink

Home and Lifestyle @ Mailbox
 
The Mailbox contains the following home and lifestyle stores:

Artbox, Bang & Olufsen, BBC Shop, Castle Galleries, Crabtree & Eveleyn, Fired Earth, the Aga Shop

Tesco @ Mailbox
 
The Mailbox contains a Tesco Express convenience store.
Hotels @ Mailbox
 
The Mailbox contains two hotels: the Malmaison and the Ramada.
Salons & Spas @ Mailbox
 
The Mailbox contains two hair salons, Nicki Clarke and Toni & Guy.

It also has one spa: Le Petit at the Malmaison Hotel.

BBC @ Mailbox
 
The BBC moved to the Mailbox in 2004.

It occupies 10,000 square metres on two floors with TV and radio studios, a public foyer, offices and shop.

Visitors can watch live programmes.

Parking @ Mailbox
 
The Mailbox has a 672-space multi-storey basement car park off Wharfside Street.
Overview: The Cube
 
The Cube (2010) is on Commercial Street, next to the Mailbox and the Birmingham and Worcester Canal.

It is a 25-floor 72-metre mixed-use tower with an angular crown, a gold-anodised aluminium frame and a striking window-pattern-facade inspired the Tetris video puzzle.

Hotel Indigo @ The Cube
 
The Cube contains Hotel Indigo: a boutique hotel with 52 luxury guestrooms on the 23rd and 24th floors.
Restaurants @ The Cube
 
The Cube contains a Marco Pierre White steakhouse bar and grill with a rooftop terrace and glazed al fresco balcony on the 25th floor.
Health Club & Spa @ The Cube
 
The Cube contains a health club and spa with members lounge, climbing wall, thermal rooms, swimming pool and gym.
Apartments @ The Cube
 
The Cube contains studio, one-and-two-bedroom apartments and duplexes.

The first residential lessees moved into the Cube in November 2010 (News Archive 19/11/10).

Offices @ The Cube
 
The Cube contains around 55,000 square feet of office space on levels 11, 12 and 14. Tenants include the Highways Agency.
Parking @ The Cube
 
The Cube contains an automated basement car park with 339 spaces.

Customers deposit their car at one of 4 transfer garages where it is scanned and shuttled by conveyor to an empty space.

Overview: Waterfront Walk
 
Waterfront Walk is a canalside pedestrian boulevard off Holliday Street, Westside. It is connected by footbridge to the Mailbox and Cube on the opposite bank.

There is a Thai restaurant, the Kinnaree, and a Subway fast food restaurant on Waterfront Walk.

Map: Mailbox Cube and Waterfront
 

 

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