After The Garden Festival
After the end of the festival, the site was expected to be developed for housing, but the original developers, Laing Homes, had sold up before the event due to the housing slump in 1987, and most of the 100 acres (0.40 km2) of land was then owned by Grosvenor Estates or the City Council. Like the other Garden Festivals, which had all promised a speedy post-event development to capitalise on the popularity of the occasion, the majority of the site remained derelict for years. Parts were finally redeveloped for the Glasgow Science Centre and also Pacific Quay, which includes a media campus that provides new headquarters for BBC Scotland and Scottish Television, opened in 2007. The Clydesdale Bank tower was dismantled and re-erected in Rhyl in North Wales, however its spiritual successor came in the form of the Glasgow Millennium Tower as part of Science Centre complex, which stands on approximately the same spot.
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