Office building construction starts on Sir Sean Connery`s birthplace

27-Mar-2008 • Actor News

Work on the first offices at Edinburgh's new Springside quarter - on the site of Sir Sean Connery's birthplace - is set to start in June, reports the BBC.

The five-storey building is on the former Scottish and Newcastle brewery site in Fountainbridge.

Sir Sean grew up in a tenement which has long since been demolished to make way for the brewery.

The development team is currently considering options to commemorate Sir Sean's links with the area.

The 9.5 acre Springside quarter, one of the largest city centre regeneration projects seen in the capital in the past 50 years, will also provide 600 new homes.

Developers at Springside - Grosvenor, AMA and the Royal Bank of Scotland - say it will act as an extension to the Haymarket area and the Exchange financial district.

They also hope it will cement Fountainbridge's reputation as a business district.

Dr Ali Afshar, director of AMA, said: "This will be a high quality commercial hub within a brand new urban district in the very heart of a dynamic city centre."

A number of coffee and sandwich shops facing Fountainbridge will also be created in the building.