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The Omni Centre is an entertainment and leisure complex in Greenside, Edinburgh, at the top of Leith Walk. It attracts over 4 million visitors a year, [ 5 ] and was acquired in April 2024 from previous owners Nuveen by a group related to the Bata Shoe business.
An office development began construction in the 1980s but was abandoned after construction of only the underground multi-storey car park. The incomplete structure stood for 15 years before recommencing as a smaller office scheme and the Omni Centre - an entertainment complex. [ 5 ]
Outside the Omni Centre, Greenside Place, Leith Walk: 2005: Helen Denerley: Statues of giraffes: Recycled metal, painted — Unveiled 27 July 2005 by Julian Spalding. [27] Includes quotation from the South African poet Roy Campbell at its base.
It reopened on 25 May 2007, under the management of Edinburgh Leisure, a non-profit organisation which provides sport and leisure facilities on behalf of the City of Edinburgh Council. [7] £6 million was spent overhauling the roof, the plumbing, improving the car park and converting an unopened scuba diving tank into a dedicated bouldering ...
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In December 2019, Lothian Leisure Development and NEC Group published a proposal to build a large capacity music venue and conference space in the city. [2] The location of the original proposal for an 'Edinburgh Arena', which would also include a conference centre, retail and leisure space, a cinema and two hotels, was a 30-acre site in greenbelt land near the Edinburgh City Bypass in Loanhead.
At 1 a.m. vanloads of police including dog handlers broke up a party in a pub that was being held to celebrate a Hibs boys release from prison. After some antagonism between the officers and casuals the CCS clashed with the police in the nearby Edinburgh University car park next to Bristo Square.
Dynamic Earth (originally known as Our Dynamic Earth) is a not-for-profit visitor attraction and science centre in Edinburgh, and is Scotland's largest interactive visitor attraction. [1] It is located in Holyrood , beside the Scottish Parliament building and at the foot of Salisbury Crags .