Regional Investment Summit tomorrow
Happening tomorrow in Birmingham, WMCA launched their investment prospectus today ahead of it with a nice bit on the sports quarter. Don’t think there’s anything new but imagine Knighthead will have someone there given Chancellor and DBT minister are attending.
Sports Quarter Investment by Knighthead Capital Management, owners of Birmingham City Football Club, into the Sports Quarter will bring forward a new 60,000 Blues stadium alongside the potential for a 15-20,000 seat arena, training and mixed-use areas with residential, commercial, retail, offices, and education uses. It will provide significant regeneration of the area providing an opportunity to expand the city's cultural and sports assets in a nationally significant way. New transport provision for the Sports Quarter includes the extension of the Metro and the upgrade and relocation of a train station (Adderley Park)
- leveraging on the local network from HS2's Curzon Street Station. Site remediation and early-stage development is underway with the potential new arena, women's stadium, and training facilities planned for completion by the 2030/31 football season.
Wider opportunities for investment and development resulting from this catalytic scheme and the transport improvements it is enabling.
c.£4bn GDV, c.49 ha
Knighthead Capital Management
An outline planning application is to be submitted in 2026.