AROUND 90 staff of Glasgow Culture and Sport are to move to an office in the East End of the city.

The organisation, which runs the city's museums, galleries and leisure facilities, is to base its sports development team at the new National Indoor Sports Arena in Parkhead.

They will share office space with staff of the national sports agency, Sportscotland.

The venue, near Celtic Park, is being built as one of the centrepieces of the 2014 Commonwealth Games.

A spokesman for Glasgow Culture and Sport said: "For too long the East End has suffered poverty and deprivation.

"The development at Parkhead brings with it the opportunity to create jobs, not least in sport."

Culture and Sport Glasgow is now based in the Trongate in the city centre.

Steven Purcell, the leader of Glasgow City Council, said: "This is Glasgow showing we will lead by example in relocating jobs to the East End. I believe Nisa will become the settled home of Scottish sport.

"As Glasgow prepares for the Commonwealth Games it is right that the city should be at the heart of Scottish sports."

Already the relocation of Sportscotland to Glasgow from Edinburgh, announced earlier this year, will mean 140 new jobs for the city's East End.

And redevelopment chiefs have promised 10,000 new jobs for the area by the time the Commonwealth Games come round.

The cost of building Nisa, which has become bigger than originally envisaged, has risen from £24million to £98million.

Mr Purcell said: "Everyone involved in major developments is aware of rising costs."