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Canadian pension fund invests again in Birmingham's Paradise project

CPP Investments agrees £56m funding deal for One Centenary Way

CPP Investments has injected £56m into the development of One Centenary Way(Image: Glenn Howells Architects)

A Canadian pension fund has made another investment into Birmingham's £700 million Paradise regeneration project.

CPP Investments is injecting £56 million into One Centenary Way which is the third office block to be built at the project site in Chamberlain Square.

It follows its previous investment in 2016 in office schemes One and Two Chamberlain Square as part of phase one of Paradise which came just two months after it acquired half of Birmingham's Grand Central shopping centre.

Once again, CPP Investments is working as a joint venture partner with Federated Hermes which is the main funder of the Paradise project.

Construction of the 13-storey One Centenary Way is due to complete in early 2023 and it will have 286,000 sq ft of office space in addition to ground floor retail units and other public spaces.

Terms have already been agreed with built environment consultancy Arup which is planning to relocate around 1,000 staff from its current West Midlands base in Solihull.

Chris Taylor, chief executive of real estate at Federated Hermes, said: "This deal is a vote of confidence in the city of Birmingham and Paradise specifically.