Demolition specialist Coleman has secured the job to tear down the 14-storey Coventry Point office block to prepare the way for the Midlands city’s ambitious £300m City Centre South scheme
The firm will demolish the brutalist building, dubbed as the city’s ugliest building, under a contract worth £2.76m.
The works will include the decommissioning, soft strip and demolition of the tower blocks connected by a glass walkway, as well as a three-storey red brick plinth building to the east of the site.
Following the completion of the demolition works a simple landscaping scheme is to be implemented to allow pedestrian access.
The long-awaited City Centre South scheme is central to the city council’s ambitions to create the second biggest-shopping destination in the West Midlands.
But progress has been dogged by a failure to attract a flagship shopping store for the scheme.
The scheme around Bull Yard, Shelton Square, City Arcade and Hertford Street also includes plans for hotel and leisure.
from Construction Enquirer http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2019/01/28/coleman-nabs-job-to-demolish-coventrys-ugliest-building/
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