{"id":343849,"date":"2025-08-14T12:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343849\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T12:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T12:34:12","slug":"vita-group-tables-plans-for-co-living-scheme-at-glasgows-met-tower-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343849\/","title":{"rendered":"Vita Group tables plans for co-living scheme at Glasgow\u2019s Met Tower | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vita Group has acquired Glasgow\u2019s famous Met Tower, with plans to turn the building into homes for co-living.<\/p>\n

The developer said it wants to apply its \u201cUnion\u201d co-living concept to the site following the use of the model on a 1,600-home development in Manchester.<\/p>\n

The news comes a year after the site\u2019s former owner, Bruntwood Scitech, scrapped plans designed by architect Cooper Cromar to turn the 14-storey building into offices.<\/p>\n

Completed in 1964, the grade B-listed Met Tower is a prominent landmark in Glasgow city centre, positioned directly behind George Square and known since 2014 for a pink covering on its facade emblazoned with the slogan \u201cPeople Make Glasgow\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"Met<\/p>\n

Vita Group said it wants to to turn the building, which has now been vacant for 10 years, into a \u201cthriving new community of city centre professionals\u201d.<\/p>\n

The firm\u2019s Union concept offers apartments of various sizes with shared, communal facilities. The Union Manchester scheme, which opened this year, includes co-working areas, a residents\u2019 bar, wellness facilities and lounges.<\/p>\n

Vita said it was working up detailed plans for the Met Tower, which would go out to consultation \u201cas as possible\u201d.\u00a0The proposals are said to include creating \u201chigh-quality communal spaces\u201d, improving connections between existing and new structures, and the surrounding streets.<\/p>\n

Glasgow council leader Susan Aitken said the firm\u2019s acquisition of the building was \u201cfantastic news for the future of a listed Glasgow landmark\u201d.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cVita\u2019s plans will bring what is an emerging accommodation concept to Glasgow, one that\u2019s been successful elsewhere and which can meet the needs of many younger residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it first opened in the early 1960s, the Met Tower was a symbol of a new and modern Glasgow. I look forward to it once again becoming a potent symbol of our changing city centre.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vita Group chief operating officer Max Bielby added: \u201cGlasgow is a city with exceptional energy, creativity and talent, and the Met Tower is an iconic part of its skyline.<\/p>\n

\u201dWe see a real opportunity to explore how our Union concept could bring much-needed accommodation to the heart of the city, supporting its employment base, culture and social scene.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vita Group has acquired Glasgow\u2019s famous Met Tower, with plans to turn the building into homes for co-living.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-343849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115027146590198465","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}