Boho X - Middlesbrough THE Digital City Planning Permission

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Middlesbrough Mboho X.jpgayor Andy Preston has revealed that planning permission for £30 million digital skyscraper Boho X is being submitted today (Monday February 24) - with building work set to start in late summer for completion in 2022.
Along with private investment in two neighbouring residential skyscrapers, Boho X will be part of a £45 million first phase of an overall £250 million digital project.
The plan
 
Why do you never post any announcements by the tees valley mayor? The airport, SSI, all the investment in the rail way stations. Some are much bigger
 
Cooper6711 said:
Why do you never post any announcements by the tees valley mayor? The airport, SSI, all the investment in the rail way stations. Some are much bigger
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Maybe because there is not a lot to get excited about yet. Airport has some overpriced flights that the rate payer is funding. Most will be gone within a year or when funding stops. Prices nowhere near comparable with other regions airports. SSI it not happened yet but hopefully it will. Glad you mentioned the railway station. What an embarrassment to the town the railway station is. Repairing the car park is not just boarding it off. When something positive happens we will all say well done. Until then.
I have got to agree with Gene on todays announcement "More empty offices.....assuming they happen".
 
I agree with other posters what do the hell does Middlesbrough need more offices for? If the current ones aren't fit for purpose knock them down. Most are utter eyesore 60s drab anyway and won't be missed by anyone with their smashed windows etc.
 
To cash in on the digital economy? A properly specced digital office could entice tech firms and boost the economy quite massively
 
SmallTown that's fine and I like new buildings because they're all shiny and look good but what about the other office space couldn't that have been converted etc. If not it needs knocking down.
 
There seems to be a build it and there will come mentally on Teesside it’s great to see .

Of course more work will be to come but we’re heading in the right direct .
 
FullTiltTraore said:
SmallTown that's fine and I like new buildings because they're all shiny and look good but what about the other office space couldn't that have been converted etc. If not it needs knocking down.
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Good question: not sure how the infrastructure would be upgraded. Main thing, for me, with a "digital" building is the connectivity: both wifi and wired. I wonder if the have costed the build of a new building over a complete renovation?
 
SmallTown said:
Good question: not sure how the infrastructure would be upgraded. Main thing, for me, with a "digital" building is the connectivity: both wifi and wired. I wonder if the have costed the build of a new building over a complete renovation?
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I'm always in favour of new buildings unless your replacing a nice building like they did when the A66 was built (that was criminal how much Boro lost) due to the new tech that can easily be packed. But there has to be a plan for existing unusable buildings otherwise they're just wasting economic space that could be used for more profitable uses. ONE building is a prime example.
 
I am not usually one for risky high expense projects, but they can work in some circumstances. London Docklands has worked and transformed the economy of London. At first people said it would not work and for the first 10 years that looked correct. Middlesbrough has a lot of land close to the Town Centre and the railway station that for many years has been relatively empty. It was an industrial area and an area of poor housing. An area that not many visited unless going to see the transporter. In a similarly way London Docklands was empty for 15 years and even before that an area few people visited. Docklands needed big investments to create the right conditions for others to come in. The Government pumped a lot of money into the DLR and give grants to early developers. It must have been a strange and difficult place to live for the early yuppies and they met aggression and negativity from a number of the local residents who felt they were pushed out. There were few amenities for the yuppies, but now the area is quite expensive to live and virtually a new City has been created.

I know Middlesbrough is not Docklands and Middlesbrough does not have an overcrowded prosperous area close to it, but it also has some initial advantages, such as better initial transport links and close to a decent university for IT and digital resources.
 
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