WILLMOTT DIXON has won the £18m contract to refurbish the former Lewis’s department store building in Birmingham city centre.
Legal & General Property (LGP) bought the site in 2014 for £87.5m and plans to convert the building into 114,000 sq ft of grade A office space.
Willmott Dixon will start on site shortly and when it is finished, which it is scheduled to be next July, it will provide some of the largest floorplates in the city’s business district of 17,000 sq ft, along with a new 12,000 sq ft, fully glazed seventh storey.
Tom Williams, senior asset Manager at LGP, said: “We are taking an underinvested asset and creating a truly landmark location that seamlessly blends a contemporary workplace with the building’s historic legacy.
“The Lewis Building represents a fantastic opportunity for Birmingham’s commercial market and we have already seen considerable interest from some of the larger requirements currently looking to identify space.”
The building on Bull Street has more recently been known as Temple Court and Priory Court but has been renamed the Lewis Building to reflect its most famous use, having been home to the department store group for nearly 70 years until 1991.
Willmott Dixon’s managing director in the Midlands, Peter Owen, added: “We are really pleased to be working on the Lewis Building project, creating inspiring places for people to work in Central Birmingham. Being Birmingham based, it is a pleasure to see our city flourish and be a part of delivering that for our community.”
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