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ADVERTORIAL
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CLYDE WATERFRONT Opportunities keep on flowing
T
he scale, pace and diversity of its regeneration has revitalised the River
Clyde, making it one of Britain’s biggest and most advanced regeneration areas. With a further £500 million of new private sector projects proposed in the last 18 months, opportunities to invest, locate and live here keep on flowing! Clyde Waterfront Strategic
Partnership (
www.clydewaterfront. com) comprising the Scotish Government, Scotish Enterprise and Glasgow City, Renfrewshire and West Dunbartonshire councils, continues to facilitate and promote the more than 250 developments along 13 miles of the Clyde from Glasgow, via Renfrew to Dumbarton. A total of £3.5 billion has been spent or commited since 2003 by the public and private sectors, creating 22,000 new jobs, 10,000 new homes and 350,000m2 of new commercial space and many new centres of business excellence, namely: Financial services: Glasgow’s
award-winning International Financial Services District (IFSD)
www.ifsdglasgow.co.uk has atracted more than £1billion of investment to date via global
companies like Aon, Aviva, Barclays, BNP Paribas, esure, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, National Australia Group, Santander and Tesco, creating 15,500 new jobs since 2001. New occupiers, new Grade A office space, the Tradeston “Squiggly” bridge and hospitality plans for Broomielaw Quay, all add fresh impetus. Creative industries: the Pacific
Quay and SECC area is marketed to Creative Industries as Creative Clyde (
www.creativeclyde.com). BBC Scotland and STV are firmly established here and another 50 creative SMEs are based in Medius, Te Hub and Film City Glasgow respectively. A “Floating Village” is planned for the Canting Basin and opposite the 12,000 seat Hydro arena opens in autumn 2013, reinforcing Glasgow’s credentials as a world class entertainment and conferencing venue. Shipbuilding: having completed
6 Type 45 Destroyers recently, now the thousands of highly skilled workers at BAE’s two shipyards in Govan and Scotstoun are building the massive hull sections for two 65,000 tonne Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraſt Carriers. Medical science: the £842m re-development of the NHS
Southern General has expanded its maternity hospital, built a new £90m super laboratory and is constructing two new hospitals, creating a health campus able to treat 725,000 patients annually. Leisure: the £74m Riverside
Museum designed by Dame Zaha Hadid, has atracted 2 million visitors since opening in June 2011, complementing other major Clyde atractions such as Glasgow Science Centre, the Glenlee Tall Ship, Xscape and the Titan Crane. Retail: Braehead near Renfrew,
already Scotland’s busiest shopping centre, will embark upon a £200m expansion. Glasgow’s Style Mile (Buchanan Galleries/Street and Argyle Street/St Enoch’s Centre) is one of the UK’s most popular retail destinations. Housing: more than 10,000
new homes have been built since 2003 along the Clyde, such as the award winning £1.2billion Glasgow Harbour development which has further shops, restaurants and hotels planned. At Ferry Village near Braehead, six developers are building a range of 2,000 apartments and detached homes, by Clyde View Park. Education: our FREE online
resource (
www.clydewaterfront
education.com) offers teachers 200
lesson plans that link 12 Clyde themes with eight subjects as per Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. Tese lesson plans are reinforced for schools when they go on Clyde Marine Services Ltd “Classroom on the Clyde” river trips. Tourism: we have produced 350,000 Heritage Guides to atract the public to the river (
www.clydewaterfrontheritage. com) Clyde Clippers and Clyde Link ferries link the city centre with Govan, Renfrew and Yoker, complementing other services like Seaforce RIBs, Loch Lomond Seaplanes and the Waverley Paddle Steamer. Te future: Its skilled
workforce, cost competitiveness, excellent communications and new infrastructure give Clyde Waterfront a real momentum. However, this atractive and thriving waterfront location has another £1.5-2 billion of commercial, retail and residential opportunities for developers, investors and companies to realise.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
For further details visit: Clyde Waterfront, 4th Floor, Atrium Court, 50 Waterloo Street Glasgow G2 6HQ or call 0141 242 8253.
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