Prologis, a global leader in logistics real estate, is currently developing RFI DIRFT, a 700-acre intermodal (rail/freight) logistics park. In partnership with the Wildlife Trust (a federation of regional wildlife conservation charities), 193 acres have been transformed into an ecological habitat named Lilbourne Meadows, a mixed habitat of wetland and grassland with extensive hedgerows. To […]
Dickens Heath Village Centre is a purpose-built mixed-use village in the heart of the Solihull countryside that, at completion, will comprise approximately 500 luxury apartments and townhouses, 15,000 square meters (161,459 sq. ft.) of commercial space, a library, a medical center, and a nature reserve. Parkridge Holdings is developing the planned community on greenbelt land previously owned by the local authority. Although a relatively small development, the project provides the missing piece in the jigsaw of an urban extension—it introduces an economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable heart to a new community that is urban rather than suburban but still sensitive to its rural setting.