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- HQ plans revived
- Waverley Gate deal
- Launch and letting
- Exchange Place deal done
- Tanfield first tenant

Scheme rejected
Tiger Development's £250m Edinburgh Haymarket scheme, which include 337,000 sq ft of offices and 17-storey Intercontinental and Travelodge hotels on a derelict site by the station, has been thrown out after a public inquiry.

Summer completion for Q6
Gladedale Group and Royal Bank of Scotland has stated that it is ahead of schedule on the construction of the 4,900 sq m (52,743 sq ft) “Q6” Quartermile office building at The Quartermile, Lauriston Place in Edinburgh. Completion is now due in summer 2009. This is the second office building following the completion of One Quartermile Square in late 2007. Foster & Partners is the architect. The main contractor is Sir Robert McAlpine. Montagu Evans and CB Richard Ellis are the letting agents

Development boom for 2009
In Edinburgh only three office schemes, comprising five buildings, are under construction. These schemes will provide 34,099 sq m (367,042 sq ft) of Grade A office space. Next year only 9,787 sq m (105,346 sq ft) of office space will come on stream but development activity is set to increase rapidly from early 2008 and on current developer intentions 127,448 sq m (1.3m sq ft) would be delivered by the end of 2009.

Ocean Point letting
The British Heart Foundation has taken 279 sq m (3,000 sq ft) on the first floor at AWG's Ocean Point 1, Ocean Drive, in Leith, EH6 6JL, for a new regional office. Cushman & Wakefield advised.

Tiger stalks EDi's yard
Tiger Developments is the ‘preferred developer’ to buy EDI’s development site at the Goods Yard on Morrison Street, Edinburgh. The site has planning permission to for 46,465 sq m (500,000 sq ft). Metropolis has been advised that Tiger is the main contender to acquire the site and Page & Park has replaced Reiach & Hall as the architect. Tiger is part of the Irish firm O’Flynn Construction.