only four Selfridges department stores and contained the largest Debenhams outside London.The area is said to bring in around £1 billion per year, and has a footfall of around 36.9 million a year. The Rotunda The Rotunda was refurbished by Urban Splash into residential apartments from an office building. The building was stripped to the core and floorplates before new full-height windows and cladding were added, plus two LED boards to the top of the building. New Street Station Designs were shown to the public in mid-February 2006 for a new Birmingham New Street station in a project known as Gateway Plus. The plans featured a foyer of open space with a multi-storey entrance. The roof was composed completely of glass to allow natural light to enter the entrance hall. The façade will have rounded edges and the Pallasades Shopping Centre above the station will remain. A planning application for outline planning permission was submitted to the council in August 2006 which shows a glass façade with rounded edges. The entrance on Station Street originally included two curved 130 metre tall towers on the site of Stephenson Tower. Due to the economic slowdown, the office space is not needed, and the "twin towers" plan has been shelved until the market picks up. Work began on the new station in September 2009. The building work will be done in phases in an attempt to minimise disruption to passengers and shoppers. The building work was completed in September 2015. Snowhill The Snowhill scheme adjacent to Snow Hill station is a large mixed-use development. Developed by Ballymore, it will feature two office blocks, a hotel tower and a 137-metre residential tower. One Snowhill was the first building in the development. The accountancy firm KPMG has of office space in the building on a 20-year lease on floors 7 to 11. Following this, Barclays agreed to move its Midlands headquarters to One Snowhill. They are to take up of space on floors three to six on a 15-year lease with its own dedicated reception and meeting suite. 1,000 sales and operations staff will move into the office building. The pre-let to Barclays is believed to be the reason why they were comfortable to refinance the loan for the construction of the building. Snowhill One was completed in 2009. Construction of Two Snowhill was suspended in 2009, with the basement level and slip form cores