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This looks like it might be an interesting event for anyone affected by the city's regeneration plans for the Broomielaw.
http://www.glasgowchamberofcommerce.com/news-media/member-news/2016/september/20/y-our-broomielaw-public-event-01/

I can't say that the image of this development at all appeals to me, but it is important that the site is quickly redeveloped. Glasgow can little afford another long-term city centre gap-site like at Argyle St/Trongate. http://www.constructionenquirer.com/2016/09/01/75m-glasgow-office-plan-for-forme...

Not sure that any of that really alters anything of what I've said? Shawlands being cheaper than the West End or City Centre is hardly news, always has been, whether to rent or buy. But it's now worse if it's a locality as a cheaper option in a city already in trouble. BTW, Buy to Let is not a posit...

At least that suggests that Shawlands is little different from the UK in general - still dining out on growing debt, and a declining economic base with which to create real new material wealth?

Well if Shawlands is doing OK it is a true rarity - indeed a remarkable exception. Only today I was at a retail conference where we heard from much respected Prof Sparks of Stirling Business School. The refrain of his presentation was to again confirm the reality that all small retail and all tradit...

Agreed on the whole retail across Glasgow thing. IMO Glasgow is at a critical juncture on retail; isn't the regional market already saturated? The fall out of earlier big retail development has being at great cost to many of the towns around the region (Motherwell, Wishaw etc). Paisley-as-casualty-o...

Really incisive (and heartfelt) points RDR. Especially where you say, '...the problem for Shawlands is, it doesn't know really what it is...' Good few years ago (the early noughties?) the GCC had a stab at classifying a 'hierarchy' of local shopping centres. It was a commendable effort to recognise ...

Problem ks that if we accept that generalisation (and I don't, I have known and know politicians who seem to be striving to 'Do Good') then that is to accede to the right-wing classic conservative line that, 'all politicians are in it for themselves, so just don't give them the power or the money'. ...

Just as well none of us is going for a 'gross over simpolification'. Mind you the Good Ship Public Expenditure Glasgow Rregeneration continues apace - seemingly not in the least publicly encumbered by governance worries (or even an awareness of them?). See this perhaps untimely latest PR production:...

Aside of the arguable merits of the new build scheme, I question the notion that Shawlands is doing pretty well. The heart of it is 'traditional' High Street heavily dependent of small retail. That small retail sector is in long term, and probably accelerating, decline. The lack of success of the or...

RDR I agree that some pretty bad stuff does go on in the private sector (banks anyone?). My point was really meant as a counter-point to the hypocritical claims of (supposedly left-wing) politicians who talk as though 'all-in-the-'public-service-good-all-in-the-private-sector-bad.

Place-hacking... a 'problem' and a 'menace'... Crivens, maybe they've got some HG members in mind?
http://www.fm-world.co.uk/news/fm-industry-news/place-hacker-menace-is-growing-says-bifm/?

I don't agree RDR. In the private sector its a pragmatic world where caveat emptor is all. In the public sector the players proclaim much hype about 'being for the people', and 'serving the voter'. Especially with the political party involved here the players will oft tend to attack the private sect...

If that isn't bad enough, what about: Glasgow Labour councillors on taxpayer-funded junkets to France and the United States as the axe falls http://m.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14323625.Glasgow_Labour_councillors_on_taxpayer_funded_junkets_to_France_and_the_United_States_as_the_axe_falls/?ref=arc

Squalid self-serving crony culture episodes like this one can make people despair of the seemingly intractable bad governance that seems to endlessly recur to afflict Glasgow. Yet *another* 'regeneration' appointment mired in scandalous allegations? Everything about this disheartening episode is jus...