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Birmingham Post
Birmingham Post
Business
Tamlyn Jones

Developer behind stalled 50-storey tower remains committed to 'a landmark project'

The Birmingham developer behind a planned 50-storey apartment tower in the city says it remains committed to delivering "a landmark project" after its application for the scheme was mysteriously withdrawn.

Cordia Blackswan lodged plans last year to create a new residential scheme called Chung Ying Plaza in Thorp Street, next to Birmingham's famous Hippodrome theatre.

The centrepiece of the project was to be a 50-storey tower called Act One, containing 487 apartments and a host of facilities for residents including cinema, games room and garden alongside a 49th-floor restaurant and bar and public observation deck on the top floor.

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