Saracen Exhange Development
Background
Saracen Exchange is a flagship project for the North of Glasgow, the result of 2 years of work from the agencies involved. The Exchange will include a new state of the art health centre to serve an area where the health statistics make stark reading. GNRA will develop a new business and Learning Centre to create new jobs in the area and provide a location for new offices for a number of organisations that provide complementary services. The new Learning centre will provide a welcoming and innovative place to come and learn for all members of the local community. These elements will be completed as the first phase of works with a target start on site in the late summer of 2010, completed within 18 months.
A second phase on the Exchange will see the development of new shopping facilities and a new local housing office for North Glasgow Housing Association. GNRA remain in discussion with Culture and Sports Glasgow over the creation of a community element.
And so the current vacant site will change over the next 2 years to become a Gateway development, presenting a lively retail frontage to Saracen Street and improving the perception of the area through good quality development and through high quality, contemporary design. It will provide a development that is sustainable for the future and demonstrate a strong public commitment to changing Possilpark for the better and ‘creating opportunity, providing support’. The Development is one that the public agencies involved and the community can be proud of – we won’t be settling for anything less than great design and good facilities. It will be on a par with anything Scotland has to offer.
For more information and details please click on the link below for the full Master Plan and Design Statement:
