Growth strategy in focus with Wolverhampton a ‘city on the rise’
Council leaders will showcase Wolverhampton as ‘a city on the rise’ as they celebrate the best of business.
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Wolverhampton Business Week is under way and highlighting schemes set to reinvigorate the city’s canalside and brownfield sites in the city centre – delivering more than 6,500 new homes and creating 4,000 jobs through £2.6 billion investment.
The collective impact of 6,500 new households from long-term regeneration schemes like Canalside South, City Centre West, St George’s, The Royal Quarter and Sunbeam is potentially worth £79 million to the local economy in Wolverhampton.
On Thursday, Wavensmere Homes and Glancy Nicholls Architects will offer a virtual tour of the Canalside South regeneration scheme, at the National Brownfield Institute, Cambridge Street, with sessions at 10am and 12pm.
This is ahead of the annual Business Breakfast, the following day, where key figures from all the major regeneration schemes will tell delegates why Wolverhampton is the place to invest and why they are working collaboratively with City of Wolverhampton Council to make things happen.
Councillor Chris Burden, the council’s Cabinet Member for City Development, Jobs and Skills, said: “This is not just about housebuilding, although we do have some tough targets in that respect. This is about the creation of quality, affordable and eco-friendly homes and communities for the future and the evolution of the city.
