A topping out ceremony has taken place to mark a major milestone in the construction of a new £38 million purpose-built student accommodation scheme in Glasgow city centre.
292 St Vincent Street, which is being delivered by GRAHAM on behalf of Artisan Real Estate and Housing Growth Partnership, will comprise 321 studio apartments.
The facility is expected to complete next summer ahead of the academic year. The scheme will provide ‘premium’ living spaces alongside facilities including study areas, a gym, a cinema room, roof terraces, a reception, and cycle storage for 160 bikes.
Working alongside Artisan Real Estate and Housing Growth Partnership is Homes for Students, a third-party student management company. They were joined by Turner & Townsend and Hawkins\Brown, representing the client’s design team, at the official topping out ceremony where attendees signed a commemorative plaque to mark the occasion.
St Vincent Studios is transforming a site formerly occupied by a 1970s office building which has been vacant since 2019.
William Ross, contracts director at GRAHAM Building, said, “Reaching the topping out stage at St Vincent Studios is a significant moment in delivering this landmark scheme. Working with Artisan Real Estate and Housing Growth Partnership, we are proud to be transforming a long-vacant site into modern accommodation that will support both Glasgow’s students and the wider regeneration of the city centre.”
Artisan Real Estate’s development director for Scotland David Westwater added, “The site is in a superb city centre location and meets the urgent need for high-quality student accommodation in the city – especially for individual studio apartments. The completed development will provide self-contained studio apartments together with a range of additional facilities and amenities over 16 floors, and the more longer-term student market we are targeting will bring energy and investment to the city centre. St Vincent Studios is a well-designed development which replaces an existing office block which had remained vacant for more than five years.”
