Bristol office block to become student digs in overhaul
An unsightly office block in the centre of Bristol is to get a major facelift complete with a new public square.
The firm which owns Froomsgate House has announced plans to convert the building close to the city centre into student flats. The scheme will also include clearing up the area and knocking down two concrete footbridges which link the building to the rest of the city centre.
Froomsgate House, which was built in the early 1970s, stands on a traffic island close to the city centre where the A38 meets St John’s Bridge, a cut-through to Lewins Mead …