Another £1.75 million of Government funding has been committed to the V&A at Dundee over the next three years, the Culture Secretary has announced.
It brings the total Scottish Government support for the project to more than £18 million, including the £15 million capital investment already confirmed.
The new revenue funding was announced by Fiona Hyslop today on a visit to Dundee’s waterfront where the new museum will be built. Preparatory work at the site began on Monday.
An agreement to lease has been concluded for a new 91 bedroom hotel in dundee, Scotland's fourth largest city. Bounded by Whitehall Crescent to the north and west and Dock Stree to the south and east, the redevelopment will start in spring 2012 with completion expected in May 2013, creating 120 new jobs.
Dundee's bid to become a hub for the renewables energy industry received a major boost today when the city's port was named as one of Scotland's new enterprise areas.
Alex Salmond says Dundee's confirmation as a key location for offshore renewables manufacturing is a "wonderful statement" about the city's future.
A young Dundee dad is looking forward to buying Christmas presents for his baby daughter after starting a new job at the city's Waterfront.
One of Scotland’s largest waterfront regeneration projects, Dundee Waterfront, will announce later this week (Wed 2nd Nov) at a major global regeneration conference that the city has secured over £300 million of investment, one third of its £1 billion target.
Today's announcement from the Scottish Government of continued support for the V&A at Dundee has been welcomed by the project team.
Dundee's £925 million waterfront project has moved into the UK's top 20 regeneration projects, putting the city into the premier league of major UK schemes such as London's Olympic Park, Greenwich Peninsula and Wembley City.
The next step in the multi million pound transformation of Dundee's waterfront could get the green light next week.