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We have heard a lot of mutterings in the Glasgow media over the last few years on the long term fate of both the St Enoch Centre and the Buchanan Galleries, with talk that both will eventually disappear or be remodelled substantially. I'm just back from visiting friends in the USA and I was taken to...
Just saw that the two remaining Hutchesontown D towers on Caledonia Road are now also in the process of being cleared out - two were brought down in 2006 and the remaining two recladded. Think they said that the cladding is now substandard (by that I mean that it is Grenfell-combustible?), and it is...
It was part of the east end "GEAR" renewal project. GEAR Glasgow East Area Renewal. Millions got pumped in of UK government money after Beardmores, Arrols etc closed and the east end of Glasgow was "tarted up" with lots of derelict sites cleared and cleaned up. Was it a waste of...
It's badly in needed of doing - the streets between the Broomielaw and Argyle Street (around where Kentigern House is) have seen little (or at the most, piecemeal) development. A lot of the buildings on the south side of Argyle Street up to James Watt Street are in dire need of either refurbishment ...
Targer wrote:Glasgow has a International Financial Services District ?...Where?.
You haven't been reading the Evening Times for the last 15 years? It's the area bounded by the M8, Bath Street, Hope Street and the Broomielaw where all the swanky office buildings are.
I think the stat is that there is already a million square ft of unoccupied office space in Glasgow with more to come. Not ideal! What proportion of this is all the shiny new A-grade blocks that have recently went up, and what is the older 1970s/80s office buildings that the blue chip companies won...
To be fair though, GLA isn't Heathrow - it isn't one plane a minute for God's sake, and for the most part most approaches into GLA are from the north due to the prevailing wind direction (think about the people who live in Bearsden and Clydebank .....who have had to put up with REALLY low flying pla...
Hendry wrote:So yeah a company truly steeped in traditions of selling shite, budget cars.
True, back in my childhood years there were a lot of Archers and Peat Road Motors supplied Ladas driving about. Although there was probably plenty of commission in it for them selling all that sub-prime credit.
banjo wrote:paladin made his last appearance in a skip methinks.
Fitting then that "paladin" is also a type of wheely bin (the big round cylindrical ones on castors like you used to find in the high flats and outside schools etc). You never see those anymore. Quite rubbish really.....
I'm always bemused by the idea we need yet more office blocks when quite a few seem to lie empty. Yes, there appears to be a glut if you look at all the "To Let" signs, but the prestigous blue-chip companies that the city is trying to attract are only interested in Grade A office space, t...