The Irish Centre, facing Digbeth High Street, is to be rebuilt as part of a large regeneration project named Connaught Square. The scheme has been submitted for planning approval to Birmingham City Council and was designed by RG+P of Leicester. The 4.544 acre/1.839 hectare site is to be developed by Dublin-based Naus Group at a cost of £150 million. The scheme will consist of 631 new apartments, a 180-bed four star hotel incorporating 36 serviced apartments, shops, offices, bars, restaurants in six buildings of between 4-7 storeys rising to 10 storeys. There will also be more than 1,000 underground car parking spaces, two new public squares and public amenity space. Around 800 jobs are expected to be created. Two pools of water are to be created above the course of the River Rea which flows below the site. The White Swan public house will be retained and incorporated into the development.