GVA appointed to run Beorma development

PROPERTY consultancy GVA has been appointed to manage a major mixed-use development in Birmingham which will include a 27-storey office and residential tower.

The company’s property management consultancy team has been charged with delivering a full suite of property management, facilities management and marketing services for the Beorma Quarter project in Digbeth.

The site occupies a plot of land fronting Digbeth High Street and opposite St Martin’s Church and Bullring shopping centre and has planning consent for the delivery of a mixed-use scheme incorporating office, hotel and residential uses totalling 640,450 sq ft.

The first phase comprised a new Adagio apart-hotel and the conversion of the historic Digbeth Cold Storage building into offices to which the Prince’s Trust’s Midlands office recently relocated.

Due to commence shortly, the second phase will include a 27-storey office and residential tower block which will deliver circa 125 units.

GVA will undertake the management of the buildings completed in the first phase and provide consultancy advice on future phases and public realm.

Guy Thompson, senior director at GVA, said: “This is a truly landmark opportunity for us due to its location in Birmingham’s fast moving creative district.”