Plans for the first building at the Arena Central development in Birmingham have been submitted.

1 Arena Central will is an eight storey, 140,000 sq ft building designed by Ken Shuttleworth of Make Architects and is located on Broad Street opposite Centenary Square. It will compromise 135,000 sq ft over floorplates of 21,000 sq ft with 5,000 sq ft of retail units on the ground floor.

1 Arena Central is the first step in the masterplan for the 9.2 acre mixed-use site, which is being delivered by Arena Central Developments Ltd (ACDL).

Sir Albert Bore, Leader of Birmingham City Council, said: "Arena Central represents a key opportunity to unlock a prime piece of development land right at the heart of the city centre... it is essential that we encourage the development of forward-thinking schemes such as Arena Central."

Planning permission is already in place for 2.3m sq ft of mixed-use space, including 860,000 sq ft of Grade A office accommodation, over 200,000 sq ft of residential units, 2,500 car parking spaces and more than 1.2m sq ft of retail and leisure units on the former Carlton Television studios site.

Clearance work on the site is already underway with further demolition of the remaining buildings due to commence shortly and work on 1 Arena Central and the new public realm set to start in early 2015.