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£15m project on derelict site could revive Possilpark

IT looks like a sleekly-designed office complex in the heart of a thriving business
district.

But this is one of Glasgow's poorer communities - and how it would look after
a planned £15million regeneration project.

As this artist's impression shows, Saracen Street in Possilpark could be unrecognisable
in a few years.

A regeneration plan devised by Glasgow North Regeneration Agency is aimed
at transforming the health and wellbeing of the area. It wants to redevelop a 1.72
hectare site next to the library.

The brownfield site, which once had a Blindcraft factory, has lain derelict for
around 15 years and is still owned by Glasgow City Council.

Council bosses will be asked to sell the land to the agency for around £277,000
at a meeting on March 29.

GNRA then intends to go for planning permission in the next six months and
wants work to start before the end of the year.

Under the plans, the new-look Saracen Street would have a modern health and
social care centre, a new business centre offering affordable start-up space,
a new building housing the GNRA and a housing office with meeting halls.

New businesses and shops, and possibly a small supermarket, are also envisaged,
with work due to be completed by 2010.

James H
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