The improbably impressive and ambitious Ratho Adventure Centre
near Edinburgh has gone into receivership just months after it first
opened.
The Centre cost around £22 million to construct and is built
around an old quarry which has been covered with a huge transparent
stretch fabric roof and augmented with an impressively integrated
building housing bars, gym facilities, the Scottish national judo
facility and much more.
Ratho was consistently behind schedule, but as we discovered when
we visited the centre just before it opened late last year - see link
to previous articles below - the scope of the development is
breathtaking and the news is desperately sad for the team behind the centre who have been working on the development for ten years or more..
Despite being located within 20 minutes of a huge population
centre and being far more than 'just a climbing wall', Ratho has
reportedly failed to attract enough users to make it viable. As a
result the receivers have been called in.
According to the BBC, they are confident of finding a buyer for
Ratho and the jobs of the 78 employees are said to be safe for the
moment.
More details from this
BBC
Scotland article.
And from The
Scotsman.
Information about Ratho from the Ratho
web site.
