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Post by moonshadow on Feb 27, 2012 13:15:20 GMT 1
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Post by neartic on Feb 27, 2012 14:18:59 GMT 1
give us a bloody asda
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 27, 2012 16:28:57 GMT 1
give us something like clydebank
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Post by tiddles on Feb 27, 2012 16:43:15 GMT 1
There we go again, another white elephant with the usual suspects moving in to parts of it free of charge. Bloody CIGNA..."we'll only stay here if you build us another rent free office". This is an unacceptable waste of my money. We should all make objections to the application.
Somebody somewhere must rid us of this vile organisation. They are ALL bastards.
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 27, 2012 16:53:39 GMT 1
i havent been over that part of the town for some time but the last time i was there, there were a lot of offices empty...is it the same way now........what a waste of public money.....i could think of hundreds of things that the money could be spent on.......then again its not their money, its not coming out of their pockets so who cares that is their attitude
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Post by tiddles on Feb 27, 2012 17:08:51 GMT 1
Yep, it's a huge, sprawling mass of semi-vacant buildings. Someone is making money of of it and NO mistake.
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Post by samfregreenock on Feb 27, 2012 17:14:18 GMT 1
There's not enough space to build an Asda, no site locally large enough |
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Post by tiddles on Feb 27, 2012 17:16:40 GMT 1
We could knock down the Soak Mall, the Municipal Buildings (preferably when it is occupied) and Clyde Square?  ? |
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Post by moonshadow on Feb 27, 2012 17:19:13 GMT 1
Don’t know about the new building but 2 years ago I worked in the old school building and even at that time there was more moving out than moving in don’t know if it is the same now
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Post by samfregreenock on Feb 27, 2012 17:21:30 GMT 1
We could knock down the Soak Mall, the Municipal Buildings (preferably when it is occupied) and Clyde Square? ? You cannae dae that - where would greenock town centre be without all those wonderful "shops"? Or indeed the Tele too, without all those xmas headlines about footfall (imaginary) |
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Post by tiddles on Feb 27, 2012 17:22:48 GMT 1
I notice that have been no silly quotes about how well the Soak did over Christmas.
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 27, 2012 17:27:58 GMT 1
that was all our money that made the soak mall do so well.....i dont think they did that well considering a lot of shops are empty
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Post by tiddles on Feb 27, 2012 17:52:44 GMT 1
We paid to build the bloody thing and then they sold it off at a knock down price to the property division of the Prudential who in turn sold it twelve months later for three times the amount. It has changed hands around three times since then.
Corruption x 10000000000
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 27, 2012 17:54:39 GMT 1
i was told it belongs now to an irish company
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Post by fedup on Feb 27, 2012 22:42:21 GMT 1
There's not enough space to build an Asda, no site locally large enough Well at least one which Tesco's don't already own. |
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Post by samfregreenock on Feb 27, 2012 23:06:07 GMT 1
There's not enough space to build an Asda, no site locally large enough Well at least one which Tesco's don't already own. The only area large enough locally is at span go valley, but that land is zoned for industrial use. No chance on getting planning permission. Where Tescos is now in portglasgow, was originally going to be a morrisons supermarket but they decided to take over the Safeway chain instead, so their interest in opening in port glasgow which was to be their second or third Scottish store disappeared. |
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Post by tiddles on Feb 27, 2012 23:08:39 GMT 1
I wonder how much Tesco paid to get all this, 'assistance'?
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Post by samfregreenock on Feb 27, 2012 23:15:53 GMT 1
I wonder how much Tesco paid to get all this, 'assistance'? In port Glasgow the developer, Gallagher, just went with the highest bidder which was Tescos, they would have paid anything to keep Asda out A friend of mine was working with Gallagher, on their behalf, the owner was up from Manchester to sign papers etc. man Utd had a big game on that evening and the paperwork signing was running a bit late. My pal asked him if he was going to game tonight and what time his flight was, as he would be cutting it fine to make the BA flight to Manchester. Gallagher guy says no worries, he'll get to game in plenty of time as the flight he was getting was on his own private jet no worries about queuing, security or any of that nonsense and he had a limo picking him up at Manchester to take him straight to the stadium |
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 27, 2012 23:35:37 GMT 1
must be okay for him..shows you how much money he has
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Post by neartic on Feb 27, 2012 23:41:05 GMT 1
im not sure but i think it is a pakistani that ownes it the same ones who own the two car parksat thr crystal palace and king st
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 27, 2012 23:55:23 GMT 1
neartic any idea why the toilets were called the CRYSTAL PALACE...i always wondered about it though they might change the name to nelly mcfadgen loo's lol
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Post by neartic on Feb 27, 2012 23:57:16 GMT 1
i dont know they allways had them glass bricks in them i thought thats why
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 27, 2012 23:58:56 GMT 1
god knows....the place really annoys me as when you go to the loo the door squeek as if your coming out of your coffin....its terrible...
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Post by moonshadow on Feb 28, 2012 10:31:34 GMT 1
god knows....the place really annoys me as when you go to the loo the door squeek as if your coming out of your coffin....its terrible... back to nelly mcfadgen again ;D |
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 28, 2012 12:50:01 GMT 1
oh yea...its a pity she never brought a tin of WD 40 with her when opening the toilets.....just stand outside the toilets and listen....its terrible
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Post by neartic on Feb 28, 2012 13:22:42 GMT 1
ill send an e-mail to George Michael hes good at that
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 28, 2012 13:26:10 GMT 1
good one
imagine the excuse that moon could give to the police for standing outside the toilets...honest officer, i was just listening to the squeaks........hahahaha, huckled right away
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Post by neartic on Feb 28, 2012 13:33:21 GMT 1
been trying to find out why they are called crystal palace thats the only reason i can see is because of the glass bricks inside it
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Post by tiddles on Feb 28, 2012 13:53:26 GMT 1
Yep, the glass bricks caused local wags to name them, "the Crystal Palace".
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Post by linda wallace on Feb 28, 2012 16:24:06 GMT 1
well if the doors arent oiled it will be called the squeaky palace
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