Kildonan Street offices were to be converted for housing after a 2019 decision to close 18 council offices across North Lanarkshire, saving £1.2 million.
Now council officials say the newly-appointed team will “develop the most practical and cost-effective design solutions and layouts for the conversion to residential use, and provision of an office hub, as well as managing the construction phase through to completion and handover”.
Updates on the Coatbridge project come just after the local authority also confirmed that the long-vacant Orrs department store in Airdrie town centre will be demolished within three months to be converted into 20 council houses plus commercial premises.
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