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08/04/2015

Morgan Sindall To Create 300 Construction Jobs In Aberdeen

Morgan Sindall is to create 300 construction jobs during building work on the transformative mixed-use Marischal Square development in Aberdeen city centre.

Appointed by developer and urban regeneration specialist Muse Developments to construct the £107m development, Morgan Sindall has moved on to site to deliver the two-year construction programme.

Marischal Square, which is fully funded by Aviva Investors, will deliver a vibrant new mixed-use quarter for the city and include Grade 'A' office space with associated car parking, a four-star hotel, cafés, restaurants and civic space, along with public access, landscaping and public realm improvements around a site once dominated by the former Aberdeen City Council headquarters building St. Nicholas House.

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The development will create 300 jobs during the construction phase, with 1,500 jobs available when the development of offices, Residence Inn by Marriott hotel and the bar/restaurant space is fully completed and occupied in 2017. That level of staffing in the development will also help sustain a significant number of jobs in the city centre area.

(CD/JP)

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