Va va Brum: The Birmingham building boom

By Dave Rogers2020-04-01T05:00:00

Once dismissed as a concrete jungle, few cities have changed more dramatically than Birmingham

‘It’s a secret only one million people are in on.”

Writer and editor Tom Cullen left London to return to the place of his birth seven years ago. The 39-year-old spent a dozen years working in the capital’s magazine industry, including spells at men’s lifestyle magazines such as FHM and Shortlist. The father-of-two now runs I Choose Birmingham, a magazine that’s emailed once a week to 17,000 subscribers.

It’s a listings magazine detailing what is going on in the city. Even a few years ago, Cullen says, it would have been unthinkable that such a thing existed in Birmingham. “It’s a joy to live in now,” he adds. “It certainly wasn’t the case back then.”

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