The former city centre home of three of the Midlands’ biggest newspapers has been bought by a local developer.

For decades the Birmingham Post and Mail and Sunday Mercury were housed in Colmore Circus, a nine-storey office building in the heart of the Second City (below).

Last November the titles’ editorial and printing operations moved five miles outside of Birmingham to Fort Dunlop, a disused tyre factory just off the M6.

Now the company behind Birmingham’s iconic Mailbox building, home to the BBC, and the on-going Cube project, have bought the offices.

Full plans have yet to be released but the Birmingham Development Company has said it will be a ‘landmark’ for the city.

Director Alan Chatham told the Post: “It is exciting to find a building of this scale in such a prominent central location and at a value that provides us the opportunity to do something really special with it.

“Our company does not do ‘ordinary’, each of our schemes are complex and unique, and as such we will never build The Cube or The Mailbox again, we are looking to do something different that will make the most of the location and create a new landmark for Birmingham.”