Developers have provided an update on a huge £100m tower that's likely to create 2,000 jobs and be Nottingham's second tallest building. Fresh plans have been revealed for a 24-storey building, which would house around 1,260 students and be built on the former site of Base 51 on Glasshouse Street in Nottingham city centre.
In addition to accommodation and communal facilities for students, the building would include a café and convenience store open to the public, as well as a reception area and community police hub. There would also be changing, toilet and shower facilities open 24 hours a day for the emergency services, according to the current unfinalised proposals.
The prospective development would create more than 2,000 construction jobs in the city alongside a small number of permanent jobs in management and maintenance of the building, which would be just behind the Victoria Centre and its flats - which would be the only taller building in Nottingham. The plans have been reduced in size from the initial designs for a 38-storey skyscraper in March 2021, which would have housed more than 1,500 students and was opposed by local conservationists and campaigners.
