Eastside City Park Eastside City Park is an urban park in Birmingham, United Kingdom, covering . The scheme is part of the Eastside regeneration programme. The park was designed by Architects Patel Taylor with French Landscape Architect Allain Provost who gained commission for the project in 2006. Development of the park commenced in August 2011 by contractors Wates. The park partially opened to the public on 5 December 2012 and officially opened on 16 March 2013. It was the first city centre park created in Birmingham for 125 years and doubled the amount of open space in the city centre. City Park Gate The City Park Gate scheme located immediately adjacent to Moor Street station will deliver over of Grade A offices, a 200-room hotel, 250 residential apartments, and of retail. The scheme will also include a major new public square. An outline planning application for the development, designed by Make Architects, received consent on 10 May 2007. Construction was originally expected to begin in early 2008 and be completed by 2011. Masshouse Masshouse is a development with the construction of 13 new highrise blocks intended for public services, commerce and residential purposes. When completed, the blocks will have a prominent position on the Eastside skyline. Also planned for location at Masshouse was Birmingham Magistrates' Court, which was scheduled to begin building in March 2010 to be completed in early 2013, but has since been cancelled by the Conservative-LibDem Coalition government. In mid-2010, city planners approved proposals for a nine-storey, 174 bed hotel beside the existing Masshouse building. The Hotel La Tour group plans to open the four star in February 2012, creating 100 full and part-time jobs in the area. The development will include a restaurant, bar, gym and conference facilities. Martineau Galleries Martineau Galleries was a proposed mixed-use development to connect the Eastside to the city centre core and was also to be located on the High Street, a major retail area. The design contained residential and office blocks as well as an open area surrounded by shops. There were also five rooftop gardens. There was also to be a block with two towers protruding, one of which was estimated to be 110 metres in height with 29 floors and a sloped roof with two rooftop gardens either side of these. The other was shorter, however also had the sloped roof. It was proposed that there would be