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escalators are due to be delivered in August. Another part of the project involves building a new walkway connecting New Street station to nearby Moor Street station. Currently passengers walk along a
pavement that’s due to close when the second phase of the project starts. The new connection provides a much more direct route and will become permanent once the whole Gateway project is complete. Another major task, and probably one of the most visible parts of the project, is also now underway. Contractors are fitting special frames to hold up the stainless steel cladding that will make the new New Street station so iconic. It’s slow progress, because there were
no proper drawings of the 1960s station and the building has had to be surveyed from scratch. It’s meant that each frame has had to be specially made. It’s also being carried out close to one of the busiest thoroughfares for buses in the city – Stephenson’s Street has more than 100 buses an hour passing through it and has to be kept open. The first piece of cladding is due to be fitted in May this year. Around the same time, the first pieces of the framework for the station’s dramatic new
then glazed. Elsewhere on the project, work on demolishing Stephenson’s Tower, an old council block of flats has also been completed. In another development, Network Rail
‘The project has been so well planned that there’s been no disruption to the smooth running of the station’
atrium will be delivered to site too. It will become the centrepiece of the new complex, allowing daylight to stream down into the station. Called the ‘bubble’ by contractors, it will effectively become a giant Meccano set, which will have to be assembled and
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and Birmingham City Council have now appointed a new property consultant to lead the leasing of the Pallasades shopping centre, above the station. Part of the Gateway project now involves a significant upgrading and remodelling project for the centre. The reconfigured Pallasades will consist
of 150,000 sq ft of high-quality retail space in the heart of the city and will be located next to a new 250,000 sq ft John Lewis department store, which is scheduled to open in autumn 2014. So much is now happening on the Birmingham Gateway project that it’s a credit to the team working on it that most passengers using the station appear to be blissfully unaware of just how much work is actually going on. The first phase is expected to be open to
passengers by 2013, while the whole project is due for completion in 2015.
PETER PLISNER is the BBC’s Midlands business and transport correspondent
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