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Major Glasgow regeneration project welcomes first residents
Author: Caroline Ednie
The new 1.1million square feet Collegelands development on the east side of Glasgow's city centre will see its first office block - at 220 High Street - occupied from 6 February.
Collegelands is Glasgow's first new city centre quarter in decades, and will feature over 1.1million square feet of commercial and residential space when complete. The development has been created through a partnership between Glasgow City Council and Dawn Group.
The Collegelands project has seen the reclamation of the former College Goods Railway Yard at High Street / Duke Street that lay vacant for more than 40 years.
The first phase of the scheme includes 102,000 square feet of office space; student accommodation units, offering 600 bed spaces; a 1220 space multi-storey car park, run by City Parking, one of the council's arms length external organisations; and the site infrastructure and utilities including off-street car parking and new internal roads.
The student accommodation is already full and the car park opened in late 2011.
It is expected that Collegelands will be a catalyst for further regeneration projects that will unlock the area's development potential as well as linking to Glasgow's East End, an area that is also undergoing major transformation through projects such as the M74 completion and the building of the East End Regeneration Route, the Commonwealth Sports Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
Over 400 construction jobs were created during the first phase of the project, with an estimated impact of £80million for the city's economy.
Glasgow City Council has now taken up a 25 year lease for 102,000 square feet of office space for use by several of its services and ALEOs (Arm's-Length External Organisations). The first of these to move into the building will be ACCESS, the council's ICT and property services ALEO. Approximately 1000 council and ALEO staff will move in over the next few months.
Councillor Gordon Matheson, the Leader of Glasgow City Council, said: "The Collegelands development has generated £80million of economic activity in the city, and the Grade A office space opening next week will become a symbol of the regeneration of this part of the city. This development breathes new life into a site that has historically been of great significance to Glasgow, and I look forward towards its continued transformation.”
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