C&W delegation will take positive message to MIPIM

COVENTRY and Warwickshire will go to the world’s largest commercial property show with “its most optimistic message for the last five years,” it is claimed.

Coventry has had a presence at the MIPIM property conference for more than 20 years and last year was officially joined by Warwickshire at the show in Cannes, which attracts around 30,000 property professionals from across the globe.

Private sector developers and other related businesses come together under the banner of the MIPIM Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership.

With work on the Friargate office-led scheme due to start weeks before the show and a developer – Queensberry Real Estate – in advanced talks over the City Centre South project, the city is set for major development in the next few years.

Lynnette Kelly, Coventry City Council cabinet member for business, enterprise and employment, believes that the message of development will be perfectly tailored to the MIPIM audience.

She said: “There is a tremendous amount of development happening or about to happen in the city and in the county and that gives us a very strong message to what is the most powerful property audience there is.

“A great deal of preparatory work has been going on over recent years when the market has been through tough times but that means now, as hopefully there are tangible signs of improvement, we are at the perfect stage for those plans to start coming to fruition.

“Accordingly we will be going to MIPIM with a very positive and optimistic story about the city and the county and what we have to offer inward investors – probably the most optimistic message for the last five years.”