WORK is progressing on a development to build luxury new properties on the former McPherson Centre site in Gourock.

Construction company Globe Homes are working with Inverclyde property firm Bowman Rebecchi Estate Agents to create 22 three-bedroom semi-detached houses in the area.


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Work at the site is under way as builders put up walls and work on the foundations.

Some of the plots at the site have already been put on the market with £275,000 price tags.

The new properties will be constructed on the cleared land between Tower Drive, Jacobs Drive and McPherson Drive.

Greenock Telegraph: New pictures have shown the progress of work to build luxury flats on the former McPherson Centre

All of the homes are named after elements of famous Gourockian Captain Duncan McPherson's life.

Greenock Telegraph: New pictures have shown the progress of work to build luxury flats on the former McPherson Centre

The development's logo is based on one of the ships that McPherson is believed to have sailed during his career and can be seen on the water fountain — donated to the town by McPherson — at Gourock Pierhead Gardens.