IT will have everything from an internet cafe, health centre and bank to a laundry and handyman. It will even have a post office and pub.
IT will have everything from an internet cafe, health centre and bank to a laundry and handyman. It will even have a post office and pub.
Today, as more details emerged on just how the athletes' village for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games would look, it became clear it would be just that a complete village within Glasgow.
City council bosses have now asked potential developers to contact them if they are interested in taking on the massive project.
But they insist the 95-acre site must include: lA shopping complex with a bank, post office, travel service and convenience shopping.
lAn entertainment complex with a cinema, internet cafe, bar/bistro, conference and meeting rooms.
lA religious centre and a fully equipped clinic providing immediate health assessment and recuperation area.
lA restaurant capable of taking 2000 diners which throughout the Games will operate 24-hours a day, seven days a week.
lFurther dining facilities, seating up to 600 people each, at various locations in the residential area where 6500 competitors and officials will live. They will be expected to be open between 10am and 10pm.
lService centres providing a laundry, television, handyman, information services and free drinks vending machines.
lAn international zone with a VIP registration and reception area and an area to carry out ceremonies.
Facilities will be needed for the Commonwealth Games Federation Medical Commission and the Village will include a fully equipped gym, fitness and recovery centre as well as outdoor training facilities.
It will also include a travel centre and a base for the police and fire and rescue services.
Council leader Steven Purcell said: "The creation of the athletes' village offers Glasgow's people and employers the chance to build what will be a global showcase for our city and country.
"Through this they can develop skills and business networks that will be of tremendous benefit long after the athletes have gone.
"After the Games, the village area will become a vibrant neighbourhood, a flagship for the regeneration of Glasgow's East End and a visible reminder of the legacy of the Games."
Accommodation in the residential zone will be in permanent buildings with a maximum of two athletes or officials per room.
The developer will decided the number of each house type but the council wants four-storey two and three bedroom apartments, two storey two and three bedroom terrace houses, two storey two and three bedroom semi-detached homes, three storey townhouses with between two and four bedrooms and two storey detached homes with between three and four bedrooms.
Once the athletes move out there will be 700 houses for sale, 300 for rent and a 120-bed care home for the elderly.
A council spokesman said: "We expect the village to be carefully designed, of the highest environmental stand- ards and built to become a highly desirable new residential neighbourhood.
"The interested companies must show in their formal expressions of interest that they have the appropriate resources, knowledge, skills and experience to deliver the master planning, funding, construction and re-use of the athletes' village."
The developer will be expected to include benefits for local people through creating employment, offering training and creating business for small to medium-sized local firms.
Council-owned land will be given free of charge but the winning consortium will have to enter a profit-sharing arrangement with the council.
A shortlist of potential part- ners will be drawn up in Septem- ber with the preferred developer identified next spring.
Sports Minister Stewart Maxwell said: "The athletes' village will provide outstanding accommodation and when the Games are over, the will be a living community, adding to the significant physical and social regeneration of the East End."
