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The new Smithfield development will create a 'brick wall' between Southside and the rest of Birmingham, local business leaders have claimed. Southside's Business Improvement District (BID) say the highly anticipated £1.9bn project 'turns its back' on the district and will harm businesses in Chinatown by 'cutting them off' from the rest of the city. The Smithfield development is a plan to transform the former site of the Birmingham wholesale markets into a new family and leisure hub. But business leaders in Southside have raised concerns that the site only provides one, 'underdeveloped' pedestrian route to the district - depriving businesses...
