With a prominent entrance clearly visible on the walk from The Bullring and Moor Street Station, but cushioned from the glare of Moor Street Queensway, No. 3 City Park Gate is located in an enviable position. The building maximises the expansive views of Eastside and the new City Park and delivers strong, regular floorplates that will suit a variety of potential tenants.

The design has currently been taken to RIBA Stage B. This has enabled the basic form of the building to be fixed, and confirmed that the parking and structural solutions are valid. It will be possible for a potential tenant to play an active role in the next stage of the design process, selecting the external envelope and fine tuning the internal configuration. To take the current design to planning will take approximately 2-3 months, with a further 3 months required for the planning process.

No. 4 City Park Gate is the most visually dominant of the office quartet, being 11 storeys tall and having extensive frontage to Moor Street Queensway. It is intended that this will become the scheme’s ‘statement’ building, with the prominence of the setting demanding a high quality design. The quality of design is demonstrated internally, where the focus is on clear, uninterrupted highly divisible space.

With a generous retail amenity to be provided at ground floor care has been taken to ensure that this does not detract from the importance of the office address. This has been achieved by segregating the two uses, with retail frontages limited to Moor Street and the office entrance located within the heart of Freeman Place.

The design has currently been taken to RIBA Stage B. This has enabled the basic form of the building to be fixed, and confirmed that the parking and structural solutions are valid. It will be possible for a potential tenant to play an active role in the next stage of the design process, selecting the external envelope and fine tuning the internal configuration. To take the current design to planning will take approximately 2-3 months, with a further 3 months required for the planning process.

When designing No.’s 3 & 4 City Park Gate the need for flexibility was engrained within the brief. This has manifested itself not only in the divisibility of individual floorplates, but also with the ability to link the two buildings on level floor planes.

The linkage could take several forms and could either be incorporated prior to construction or retro-fitted once the buildings had been established. The linkage could be as simple as a walkway between the two cores or a more comprehensive union, with useable office space either side of the cores enabling the two offices to flow as one. Similarly the two office entrances could be maintained or they could be merged to provide an oversize entrance lobby.

Obviously this flexibility remains once the link has been created; with the ability to break back to two distinct buildings should occupational demand contract at a later date.

Island House is an attractive period building with unique, but very useable space. A study was commissioned to identify a range of different refurbishment and redevelopment options, ranging from a budget conscious refurbishment to a comprehensive redevelopment. As the building represents a break from the norm, and as it has no fixed design at present this represents an opportunity for an occupier to put their own mark on the building.

Note the ground floor can be utilised for either office or retail use, with designated parking provided to the rear of the building.