New student halls in the Cowgate’s Wellgate House – Edinburgh

An empty eight-storey former office block in the Cowgate is to be transformed into new student halls.

Wellgate House is getting a £2 million revamp and if work goes to schedule will be ready before the start of the new summer term in September 2011.

Before students move in, the new owners aim to open by June to capitalise on the building’s prime location – at the bottom of Blair Street – for Edinburgh Festival letting …

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