Birmingham Business Park
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Birmingham Business Park is a business park
operated by Goodman, an Australian property group, situated in the borough of Solihull
, West Midlands
of England
, about 9 miles east of Birmingham
city centre.
Current residents of the business park include Orange, Beiersdorf
, Hewlett Packard and Fujitsu
.
The park lies close to the depressed district of Chelmsley Wood
, part of a 'regeneration zone'. According to Richard Cutler,
Goodman's director of strategy, 78 per cent of workers at the park are not residents of the zone.
Business park
A business park or office park is an area of land in which many office buildings are grouped together. All of the work that goes on is commercial, not industrial or residential....
operated by Goodman, an Australian property group, situated in the borough of Solihull
Solihull
Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...
, West Midlands
West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county in western central England with a 2009 estimated population of 2,638,700. It came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, formed from parts of Staffordshire, Worcestershire and Warwickshire. The...
of England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, about 9 miles east of Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
city centre.
Current residents of the business park include Orange, Beiersdorf
Beiersdorf
Beiersdorf AG is a multinational corporation based in Hamburg, Germany, manufacturing personal care products. Its brands include Elastoplast, Eucerin , Labello, and Nivea....
, Hewlett Packard and Fujitsu
Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....
.
The park lies close to the depressed district of Chelmsley Wood
Chelmsley Wood
Chelmsley Wood is a neighbourhood, civil parish and large housing estate in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England, with a population of 13,010. It is located near Birmingham International Airport and the National Exhibition Centre. It lies adjacent to Birmingham...
, part of a 'regeneration zone'. According to Richard Cutler,
Goodman's director of strategy, 78 per cent of workers at the park are not residents of the zone.