Countdown on for city's big project

THE countdown is on for the completion of the biggest offices to take centre stage in Newcastle city centre - as new images give us a first look inside.

- COREENA FORD Business Writer

It's been more than four years since real estate billionaires and minority Newcastle United shareholders the Reuben Brothers first revealed plans for the huge Pilgrim's Quarter building, when their company Taras Properties enlisted local companies to draw up plans for the huge, 463,000 sqft Government hub.

At the time, the Stack shipping container leisure hub was in full swing on the land, left empty following the demolition of the former Odeon Cinema. Within months the popular drinking and dining destination had been taken apart to make way for contractor Bowmer and Kirkland to move on to the site and get to work on what will be the Government’s largest building outside of London.