Belgrade Plaza Belgrade Plaza The Belgrade Plaza is a £113 million mixed-use development in Coventry city centre in West Midlands, England. The Belgrade Plaza was built by construction firm, Oakmoor Deeley. The development had two phases. The first – a 1,100 space car park – opened in 2007. The second phase has two hotels, a casino, restaurants, bars and apartments to the area between the Belgrade Theatre and the ring road. Gala Casino, Premier Travel Inn, Radisson Edwardian, Pizza Express, Bella Italia and Metro Bar& Grill have been installed near the Belgrade Plaza multistorey car park. On 12 March 2008, construction workers
Theatre in Birmingham return of closure for the majority of theatres. The Birmingham Repertory Theatre was closed for two years from December 1940, and only the Alexandra Theatre would stay open for the entire remaining duration of the war. The most notable theatrical development of the war years were the Plays in the Park, that saw Birmingham's theatre companies working around the threat of evening bombing of the city centre by presenting matinèe performances of drama in the city's parks. The opening of the Sutton Coldfield transmitting station in 1949 made Birmingham the first British city outside London to have a television service,