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By Scott Wright HIGH-PROFILE property developer Chris Stewart has declared “real estate values have been maintained pretty remarkably” amid the pandemic as his company reached a milestone in its £100 million Love Loan project in Glasgow. Edinburgh-based Chris Stewart Group has just presided over the “topping out” of a 245-bedroom AC by Marriott hotel it is building a short walk from George Square in Glasgow city centre. The hotel is part of the group’s multi-faceted Love Loan regeneration project, which will also involve the construction of a 20-storey residential accommodation block and the revitalisation two listed buildings, formerly home to the Inland Revenue and the Parish Halls. ....
Best beach My dad lived in Tayport when I was growing up so I spent every second weekend and half of my school holidays there. My favourite beach has to be Tayport, stretching into Tentsmuir. I have a handful of memories when it was sunny, but I loved grey days and have so many memories of wandering down to the tank traps and finding bits of pottery. You also have the forest practically on the beach and feel you can walk forever. Best building My favourite is a ghost of a building. My grandad was a builder in Stirling and one of his buildings was the Stirling Provost Pool, known later as Rainbow Slides. I always felt a sense of propriety over it. ....
He said he had been “disturbed” at the thought of losing the sculpture but said news of his apparent reprieve was “splendid” news. Mr Anderson said: “It is very comforting to know that it is going to give pleasure to a future generation. I shall sleep soundly tonight.” My aim has always been to bring art to the people and I wanted to engage with people who might never go to an art gallery. The answer was to take it to them and put it in their offices, their canteens, their swimming pools. I was kept very busy for many decades.” ....
Click the thumbs up > Ogilvie Fleet feared the worst when Covid-19 struck in March 2020 and the country was put into lockdown. Customers were struggling to make monthly payments, vehicles could not be delivered and its ability to remarket used vehicles was curtailed. Ogilvie Fleet managing director Gordon Stephen explains: “At the end of March, when the first lockdown was introduced, I was very concerned. The amount of calls into our credit control department and the number of cancelled direct debits was unbelievable – you just thought the whole thing could implode and none of our customers are going to pay us.” ....