{"id":516974,"date":"2025-10-21T12:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516974\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T12:31:15","slug":"glasgow-refuses-to-rush-george-square-opening-for-commonwealth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/516974\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow refuses to rush George Square opening for Commonwealth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier in the meeting, Billy Garrett, the city’s director of culture, tourism and events, said there was a lot of work to “dress the city” for the games, but there would be no extra spending by the council.<\/p>\n

“The city, separate from any investment specifically around the games, is currently embarked on one of the biggest investment programmes in the country in terms of redeveloping the city centre – the Avenues project<\/a>, the re-engineering of George Square.”<\/p>\n

He added: “I think Glasgow will be more than ready to welcome visitors to the city come the summer of 2026.”<\/p>\n

He said the \u00a34m-\u00a35m investment coming into the city for infrastructure in sports facilities at Scotstoun, Tollcross and the Emirates arena was an “incredible opportunity”.<\/p>\n

He said it would not be an investment in “elite sports”, pointing to the public use of the venues. <\/p>\n

Asked if there would be council or Glasgow Life expenditure specifically related to the Commonwealth Games, the council representatives said no. <\/p>\n

But they said the scaled-back events were a model for how future Commonwealth Games could be hosted by smaller nations. <\/p>\n

Mr Garrett, who also worked on the 2014 games, said the “exciting legacy” of 2026 was how Glasgow was co-designing the new format of the Commonwealth Games for the next 100 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earlier in the meeting, Billy Garrett, the city’s director of culture, tourism and events, said there was a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-516974","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\/115412171820950067","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516974","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=516974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}