http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/futuristic-car-park-to-become-30m-office-block-1-3657055
This white elephant has been mentioned a few times on here - but I don't think it's had its own thread!
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"Futuristic car park to become £30m office block"
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Posted 10 years ago #
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Edinburgh city centre is running out of grade A office space?
I thought many employers were moving to the gyle etc
But on the other hand they have knocked down the building in St andrews sq and that is allegedly going to be standard life - so if true they are moving back in to the centre?
OTOH also reported TKmmaxx HQ or shop?
Hotels, is what we need, more hotels to be built.
Where is the car park in relation to the conference centres? We need more of them too for the hotel guests to visit.
Posted 10 years ago # -
@gembo:
I think that the St Andrew Square development is being funded by Standard Life Investments. SL won't be occupying it.
The car park is to the rear of the Aberdeen Asset Management offices (previously SWIP). This is the last modern office block on Morrison Street as you head towards Lothian Road.
The new office building opposite the EICC has been empty since completion a year ago.
Posted 10 years ago # -
The plans for the robotic car park also include the car park behind what used to be Mcdonalds cycles. Can't imagine Aberdeen Asset Management will be happy about the noise etc given the buildings are linked.
As this is part of the Exchange financial District I can't see any developer building anything other than offices.
SL Investments will be taking up residency in the new build on the south side of St Andrew Square. TKMax will be on the ground floor.
The new buildings next to the EICC (Atria 1 and 2) are partially let, mainly to financial companies. This is the building that Edinburgh CC is underwriting under a deal that was signed at the height of the property boom. Heard it's the most expensive rent in Edinburgh.
Seems strange that SL Investments are taking over St Andrews square seeing as most of Exchange Crescent (behind EICC) is empty, plus the Tanfield block. Both used to be full of Standard Life staff.
I can't actually think about any other recently built office space in the city centre that's empty.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Ah, didn't realise that SLI were moving in.
The new empty office building on Morrison Street I'm referring to is the one on the other side of the road from the EICC (it's not actually opposite, it's further along at St David's Place.)
Posted 10 years ago # -
Reducing the number of car parking spaces is a key way to mitigate the peak hour congestion created by a huge concentration of car traffic all trying to get to the same place at the same time, and then all trying to leave it at the end of the day.
By observation outside the ridiculous overload of road space for just a couple of hours per day the acres of tarmac are actually getting less use now than 2-4 years ago, and some roads are almost deserted outside the peak hours.
Posted 10 years ago # -
some roads are almost deserted outside the peak hours.
That's the Trams for you.I found another empty new office block today on Robertson Avenue. Used to be an old van rental place, then a garage, now a 5 storey office block.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Gorgie Road is littered with them. From the old council office which has been for let for 20 years to the hbos building which now has a gym in parts of it. There is another council office above the now deserted car dealers and the education department office which they have never used.
All of these are within 500m of each other and are on a main road/bus route.
Posted 10 years ago #
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