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City Centre Shopping Malls

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...
by RapidAssistant
Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:30 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: City Centre Shopping Malls
Replies: 0
Views: 23399

Re: Tower Block Demolitions - Rolling Updates!

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...
by RapidAssistant
Thu Aug 25, 2022 9:12 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: Tower Block Demolitions - Rolling Updates!
Replies: 163
Views: 525888

Re: East End Stone Cog Markers

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...
by RapidAssistant
Thu Aug 25, 2022 8:55 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: East End Stone Cog Markers
Replies: 6
Views: 30475

Re: Broomielaw & IFSD regeneration

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 ...
by RapidAssistant
Fri May 03, 2019 8:41 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: Broomielaw & IFSD regeneration
Replies: 5
Views: 23129

Re: Tower Block Demolitions - Rolling Updates!

I read somewhere that they had been talking about taking down the three Cranhill blocks (Longstone Place - you know by the motorway) - by 2020.

Can anyone substantiate this?
by RapidAssistant
Fri May 03, 2019 8:37 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: Tower Block Demolitions - Rolling Updates!
Replies: 163
Views: 525888

Re: HG Poll

I live up north now and I'm hardly in the old home town these days, so that is my excuse....
by RapidAssistant
Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:26 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: HG Poll
Replies: 213
Views: 723381

Re: Broomielaw & IFSD regeneration

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.
by RapidAssistant
Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:23 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: Broomielaw & IFSD regeneration
Replies: 5
Views: 23129

Re: BHS site redevelopment

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...
by RapidAssistant
Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:20 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: BHS site redevelopment
Replies: 4
Views: 20459

Re: Tower Block Demolitions - Rolling Updates!

Been a while since we last revisited this thread - any more blocks that people know of that are about to come down?
by RapidAssistant
Fri Mar 29, 2019 12:15 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: Tower Block Demolitions - Rolling Updates!
Replies: 163
Views: 525888

Re: Glasgow Airport; new flight path over Rutherglen!

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...
by RapidAssistant
Tue Mar 27, 2018 9:46 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Glasgow Airport; new flight path over Rutherglen!
Replies: 2
Views: 7568

Re: 'Style Mile' Monstrosity

Looks like it's built on Dixon Street on the site of the old Riverside Club?

Would be fun if they had ceildhs up there.....
by RapidAssistant
Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:12 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: 'Style Mile' Monstrosity
Replies: 6
Views: 24653

Re: Lost Car Dealerships

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.
by RapidAssistant
Fri Jan 26, 2018 1:11 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Lost Car Dealerships
Replies: 164
Views: 186918

Re: Glen Michael

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..... ::):
by RapidAssistant
Wed Jan 11, 2017 1:14 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Glen Michael
Replies: 87
Views: 69964

Re: Glen Michael

Never mind about Glen Michael, I want to know what happened to Paladin the Lamp! :D :D
by RapidAssistant
Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:01 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Glen Michael
Replies: 87
Views: 69964

Re: BHS site redevelopment

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...
by RapidAssistant
Mon Sep 05, 2016 11:41 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: BHS site redevelopment
Replies: 4
Views: 20459
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