Moffat said he was confident the project would be completed and ultimately generate jobs and money. <\/p>\n
“It does need more than \u00a320m but this unlocks further funding,” he said of the chancellor’s investment announcement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
“The site’s made a huge amount of progress.<\/p>\n
“Obviously we had some grant funding.<\/p>\n
“We’ve spent that remediating the site, getting it structurally stable.<\/p>\n
“This now is the next step moving us from ambition into action and actually delivering the scheme.<\/p>\n
“I understand people’s scepticism but, as a business, this is what we do up and down the country.<\/p>\n
“We take sites that people think are beyond regeneration and we bring them back and we turn them into really exciting places and thriving economic generators – which is exactly what this site is going to be.<\/p>\n
“It’s going to generate thousands of new jobs and hundreds of millions per annum for the local economy.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moffat said he was confident the project would be completed and ultimately generate jobs and money. “It does…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818308,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-818307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}