Longbridge’s battle ahead lies here and abroad

THE battle to attract new tenants and commercial property occupiers to Longbridge will have to contend with schemes at home and abroad.

Michael Murray, the man charged with leading the £1bn regeneration of the south Birmingham town, says that companies today are not just deciding which UK region to set up in, but whether it should be in the UK at all.

Longbridge, left devastated after MG Rover closed the majority of its factories there in April 2005, is undergoing a 468-acre makeover by Birmingham-based regen spe... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...