 |  | The BBC has signed a lease on Priory Place in Coventry city centre and the building will be the home of the brand new radio station for Coventry and Warwickshire.
The station’s new home – the £20 million leisure and residential development - will include a BBC Open Centre offering free access to learning facilities similar to the already established centres in Blackburn, Sheffield and Stoke.
It will also be the base for the BBC Where I Live online team, provide a newsgathering facility for the regional news programme BBC Midlands Today and a performance space.
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Where will the building be? | |
|  | Inside the new building |
The new Coventry and Warwickshire space will be at the front of Priory Place, opposite Pool Meadow.
Priory Place was developed by Complex Development Projects (CDP) in partnership with Coventry City Council as part of the £60 million Phoenix Initiative.
The development has transformed a major part of the city centre with a series of public spaces and squares, featuring public art and surrounded by new cafes, restaurants, bars and apartments.
The centrepiece of the new area is Millennium Square and the Whittle Arches, which were officially opened in December last year.
The new station, run by editor David Clargo, will start broadcasting in 2005.
"Fantastic news" for Cov and Warks | |
Head of regional and local programmes at the BBC, David Holdsworth, said: "This is fantastic news for the people in Coventry and Warwickshire.
"The new station will house the latest technology and is going to be more than just a home for our broadcasting activities.
"As well as visiting the open centre, people can come in and see how the BBC operates."
|  | Neil Back opens Millennium Place in 2003 |
Meanwhile, John Moss, a director of CDP, said the deal was a "major step forward" for Priory Place and the area itself.
"Priory Place is set to be the place where people come to meet friends, eat and enjoy themselves and the BBC's arrival will only add to that.
"It will offer a unique opportunity for people to drop in for a coffee, surf the web and see BBC radio shows as they are broadcast throughout the day."
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