An innovation hub, new houses and an adult skills facility are among a group of West Midlands projects set to be boosted by £118 million of new Levelling Up funding.
Six schemes across the region will benefit from this third round of capital from the central government pot.
They are:
In Birmingham, nearly £20 million will be invested into a programme of retrofits across the city led by the University of Birmingham's National Centre for Decarbonisation of Heat.
A fully equipped facility and training site will be established, creating jobs with a focus on retrofitting 100,000 homes in East Birmingham and delivering the so-called ‘Three Cities' programme of retrofitting in 166,000 homes in Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Coventry.
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An award of almost £20 million will support an innovation hub at the University of Wolverhampton's Springfield site.
Three units totalling 90,000 sq ft of commercial floorspace will be built for businesses and start-ups at the National Centre for Sustainable Construction, creating more than 300 jobs.
The Stafford Station Gateway scheme will bring new houses, businesses, a multi-storey car park and leisure and retail facilities to brownfield land around the town's main railway station.
It has received almost £20 million of new funding to modernise the station and unlock more housing development.
A regeneration project worth £20 million will boost adult skills and education at Halesowen College by creating a new building with facilities for more than 3,000 students and also improve transport infrastructure to reduce congestion in Halesowen, with a focus on active travel and buses.
An extension to Dudley College of Technology will create hundreds of new course places for students to learn about the future of sustainable transport.
The wider project, worth £20 million, will also improve pedestrian and cycling links, including to the planned tram extension for easier travel into the regenerated town centre.
Finally, a new primary school and 150 homes will be built on an old industrial site at Grove Lane in Smethwick which will be purchased and redeveloped with the support of £18 million from the Levelling Up Fund.
Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove said: "Levelling Up means delivering local people's priorities and bringing transformational change in communities that have, for too long, been overlooked and undervalued.
"We are backing 55 projects across the UK with £1 billion to create new jobs and opportunities, power economic growth and revitalise local areas.
"This funding sits alongside our wider initiatives to spread growth, through devolving more money and power out of Westminster to towns and cities, putting in place bespoke interventions to places that need it most, and our long-term plan for towns."
