locate
Graduates from Dundee's universities are being urged to consider Dundee for business. If you want to set up on your own or expand your existing business,
the City of Discovery has a new tool available to help you consider investing in your old stamping ground.
The www.locate-dundee.co.uk website is specially designed to aid investment
by providing factual profiles of the city's economy, alongside contact details
for the relevant members of the City Council's Inward Investment team.
The city centre has been transformed by an investment of almost £500 million
in the last decade - an ambitious programme recognised by a clutch of awards
including UK Town Centre of the Year, so if you haven't been for a while
you'll be amazed at the changes.
The Cultural Quarter situated to the west of the city centre contains the
award-winning Dundee Contemporary Arts Centre, the Dundee Rep Theatre,
a host of bars, cafes, shops, headquarters of companies engaged in the digital media revolution and the nerve-centre of local TV station Channel 6.
Throughout the Quarter and nearby there is the potential for incubation and post-incubation office space. There are also opportunities for galleries and
artists' workspace developments, which in turn offer opportunities for mixed space developments encompassing retail, education, leisure and the arts.
www.locate-dundee.co.uk should be your starting point if you want to find out how and why you should invest in Dundee.
A message in a bottle
A message in a bottle which was washed up on the shores of Sweden has made an unusual link between Dundee and the Swedish town of Grebbestad. Duncan of Jordanstone graduate of 1997, Scott Myles launched the bottle in March 1999 along with a pair of Dundee children in an event marking the opening of Dundee Contemporary Arts. Two years and 520 miles later it was picked up on a rocky shore by two Swedish locals who were amazed to find the message inside complete with a cheque for £40.
A newspaper in Gothenburg heard about the find and contacted the University to track Scott down. As a result Scott and Dundee children Karis Brown and Mark McLaughlin who were involved in the original project took a trip, courtesy of Dundee Council, to Grebbestad to meet Anders Isaksson and Elisabeth Ander who found the bottle. Scott has now started a one year residency in Amsterdam funded by the Scottish Arts Council.
STOP PRESS!
New alumni officer Dianne Pemberton-Pigott takes up the post of University Alumni Relations officer in June.
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