Business graduate will oversee company’s commercial property lettings and accountancy functions

Major commercial property investor, Spectrum Properties, has appointed Stephanie Roddie, 30, as a director.

A business and accountancy graduate of the University of the Highlands and Islands in Inverness, Stephanie will be responsible for both the company’s extensive commercial property lettings portfolio and its overall accounting function.

Spectrum Properties, which operates all over Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stirlingshire, is a substantial commercial property landlord and investor which has saved many buildings that are part of Glasgow’s Victorian heritage by re-purposing them for commercial use.

She said: “I have worked in a series of roles within the business while I was growing up and, after graduating in 2020, became an accounts assistant in which role I made practical use of my studies in becoming closely involved in the operation of our lettings and accounting functions.

“I am very pleased to have been made a director of Spectrum Properties and aspire, one day in the distant future, to take over the role of my father, William Roddie, who has built the business from the ground up, as chief executive.”

Spectrum Properties is currently in the concluding stages of creating a thriving new business community in Dalmarnock in the heart of Glasgow’s East End, with an ambitious and far-sighted strategic master plan which will breathe new life into the former industrial area and act as a magnet for further economic activity leading to new homes and new jobs. 

The company, which is investing close to £20 million in the development which is centred on the dramatic new Spectrum House, also has planning consent for 90,000 square ft of office accommodation, to be converted to residential use and developed over the next three to four years.

The Spectrum House masterplan frees up its former HQ in the Strathclyde Business Centre in Carstairs Street, which has full planning consent for conversion to 106 residential units in the building and on the surrounding ground.

The master plan comes on the heels of another Spectrum project which saw the A-listed Tollcross House, built in 1849 and widely regarded as a jewel of the East End, transformed into 13 apartments in a “detailed and sympathetic refurbishment”.

Mr Roddie said: “Stephanie has shown great commitment and determination in her several earlier roles within the business and I am delighted that she has also demonstrated the ambition, energy and desire to help me take the business forward to its next objective.

“As well as her office-based abilities she has been an enormous asset to the business across a range of skillsets, not least in helping achieve the “look” and stylish ambience of our much-praised Tollcross House refurbishment project.”

Some years ago, Spectrum Properties also restored the home of shipping magnate and philanthropist Sir William Burrell in an Alexander “Greek” Thomson terrace in Great Western Road in Glasgow, creating four duplex homes.