A regenerated council estate in Sandwell will be pitted against one of the biggest redevelopment projects in Birmingham's history in an annual property awards later this year.
The Charlemont Farm Estate, in West Bromwich, will take on the renovation of New Street station and Grand Central, officially called Birmingham Gateway, in the 2016 West Midlands RICS Awards in two separate categories.
Charlemont Farm contains a series of nine council-owned towers from the 1960s which have been regenerated.
Each block contains 34 flats and, in addition to updating the buildings inside and outside, the project is intended to be the start of a larger regeneration scheme.
The surrounding area has also been redesigned to provide more car parking, public footpaths and street lighting.
It is up against the £750 million redevelopment of New Street station which saw a new concourse and renovations to platforms while the former Pallasades shopping centre was completely stripped out and transformed into Grand Central, including a new John Lewis.
They are both shortlisted in the infrastructure and regeneration categories while Charlemont Farm is also a finalist in the residential award.
Other interesting match ups will see the city's former Central Fire Station next to Aston University, recently turned into student accommodation go against the revamp of Stirchley Baths in the building conversation category.
There are eight categories in total and from these winners an overall West Midlands project of the year will be chosen - last year, handed to the ongoing rebirth of Longbridge town centre.
All eight winners will automatically go forward to the national RICS Awards later in the year where Longbridge also took home the 2015 regeneration award.
The full shortlist is:
Building Conservation
The Master's House, Herefordshire
The Old Fire Station, Birmingham
Stirchley Baths, Birmingham
Commercial
Grand Central, Birmingham
Old Square Shopping Centre, Walsall
Wednesbury Leisure Centre
Community Benefit
British Motor Museum Collections Centre, Gaydon
Gateway Centre of Excellence, Coventry
Health Futures UTC, West Bromwich
Rose Manor Extracare & Oleander House, Telford
Stirchley Baths, Birmingham
The Master's House, Herefordshire
Wednesbury Leisure Centre
Design through Innovation
Curzon Building, Birmingham
Flatpack Crosslam Workshops, Herefordshire
Health Futures UTC, West Bromwich
Historic Cottage Extension, Telford
The Old Fire Station, Birmingham
Infrastructure
Ascent Housing, Staffordshire
Birmingham Gateway (New Street station)
Charlemont Farm Estate, West Bromwich
Rose Manor Extracare & Oleander House, Telford
Regeneration
Ascent Housing, Staffordshire
Charlemont Farm Estate, West Bromwich
Curzon Building, Birmingham
Old Square Shopping Centre, Walsall
Grand Central and Birmingham Gateway (New Street station)
Wednesbury Leisure Centre
Residential
Ascent Housing, Staffordshire
Charlemont Farm Estate, West Bromwich
Gateway Centre of Excellence, Coventry
Rose Manor Extracare & Oleander House, Telford
The Old Fire Station, Birmingham
The School Yard, Phase 2, Harborne, Birmingham
Tourism & Leisure
British Motor Museum Collections Centre, Gaydon
Golden Square, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
Wednesbury Leisure Centre
The awards, to be held at Villa Park on May 20, cover properties projects in Birmingham, the Black County, Herefordshire, Coventry, Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Shropshire.
The 2016 judging panel includes Gareth Morgan, managing director at chartered surveyor Cavendish Tate in Dudley, Nigel Mason, head of the Birmingham office of consultancy Rider Levett Bucknall and Guy Bicknell, senior land manager at housebuilder Taylor Wimpey.
The panel is chaired by Richard Moxon, a partner at chartered surveyor Pennycuick Collins.
