Smithfield Birmingham

We all make Smithfield. It's always been that way. The original market and meeting place of the city. The start and the heart. That's what you feel when you stand in it: 800 years of it.

A NEW MARKET NEIGHBOURHOOD WITH OLD BONES

Heritage reimagined in our restaurants and bars, new markets, cultural spaces, shops and a new public square, the city’s largest new green park and event space at the heart of it all.
NEW STREETS AND THE CITY'S LARGEST NEW GREEN SPACE

The city’s largest fresh green space. This is different. It’s exciting. It’s new. Diverse and delightful; gritty and witty; a world-class market destination, yet feet firmly on the ground.
For good food and great times

For fresh bands and new art; for history and joy. To meet, merge and mingle. To buy, to sell; exchange and enjoy. A place where everyone can come together to make, to be.
A place where worlds meet

Where people and communities and neighbourhoods connect. The city of a thousand trades, revitalised by thousands of voices, hopes and ideas.
STITCHING NEIGHBOURHOODS BACK TOGETHER

Smithfield is a new, sustainable neighbourhood that stitches together existing inner city districts and connects people, communities, business and nature with each other.
Forever forward thinking, forward looking, forward doing

All our futures connected. Fused, blended, woven and stitched. All our worlds meet here.

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HEAR CASEY BAILEY’S INTERPRETATION OF THE VISION FOR SMITHFIELD

CASEY BAILEY, BIRMINGHAM POET LAUREATE (2020 - 2022)

A DYNAMIC PLACE WITH
SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE

WHERE THE BIRTHPLACE OF BIRMINGHAM MEETS IT'S FUTURE

City meets nature. Collaboration meets innovation. Home meets wellbeing. Where culture, food and music meet. And people come together to live, work and visit.

Birmingham is bold, vibrant, and on the rise. The UK's second city and growing, it's a magnet for investment, a hub of top talent, and home to a cultural scene that shapes global icons. It's a city with purpose; where business, culture and community come together. A place with identity, affordability and a focus on wellbeing and sustainability.

BECAUSE CONNECTIVITY

Located at the centre of the country’s rail and motorway networks, and with Birmingham Airport nearby, the city is perfectly placed and hyper-connected.
BECAUSE TALENT

Several internationally recognised universities – including five in the world’s top 1,000 – produce a high quality talent pool of over 70,000 graduates per year.
BECAUSE CULTURE

This is where you’ll find the world famous City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the busiest UK theatre outside the West End, five Michelin starred restaurants, Europe’s biggest library and the continent’s largest leisure and entertainment complex.
BECAUSE RETAIL

A major UK retail hub, the city is home to the famous Bullring, with over 160 shops including Selfridges, and Grand Central, a shopping and dining experience integrated within New Street train station.
BECAUSE SPORT

This region gave birth to the football league, lawn tennis, rugby union and the world’s first ever cricket world cup, so sport is in our DNA.

THE FUTURE OF WORK IN BIRMINGHAM

With 1.6 million sq ft of flexible Grade-A workspace, Smithfield Workplace will create a new city-centre innovation campus where ambitious businesses - from start-ups to industry leaders - can grow and collaborate.

WATCH THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH RACHEL EDWARDS,
WORKPLACE FUTURE LEAD, LENDLEASE

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