Scottish Business Briefing - Tuesday April 3, 2013 - Business - Scotsman.com The Scotsman From gap site to new business hub, £200m city scheme secures rescue A RESCUE deal has been clinched over one of Edinburgh's most notorious gap sites to revive a development hoped to deliver around 3500 jobs for the capital. The £10.5 million bail-out of the project, earmarked for a former goods yard next to Haymarket railway station, is expected to see get underway within the next few months, creating a brand new business district in the west end. Diageo plan new malt whisky distillery in Easter Ross A major new malt whisky distillery is being planned for Easter Ross. Diageo, the biggest distiller of Scotch, has chosen a greenfield site near Alness, next to the existing Teaninich distillery. With 16 copper stills, it would have the capacity to distil enough for 13 million litres of spirit each year, equating to 45 million bottles. Read all today's food, drink and agriculture news from scotsman.com Architects RMJM sold for £11m to investment firm THE beleaguered architectural practice RMJM, which finally slid into receivership six months ago following years of financial trouble, is to be bought out by an investment firm. Edinburgh-based RMJM Architecture, the registered company that bought three subsidiaries of the original RMJM practice out of receivership last October, has accepted an offer from the new business Duthus Investments for £11 million, according to documents seen by Building Design magazine. Read all today's industry news from scotsman.com Only a few days left to secure your delegate places! Top speakers will debate the big issues facing Scotland's media in the 21st Century. The Scotsman Conferences Scots IT firms recruit abroad in "skills crisis" SCOTLAND'S £4 billion computing industry faces a "skills crisis" and is being forced to recruit staff from across the Border and overseas to plug holes, according to a new sector-wide survey. Trade body ScotlandIS warned half of firms could not find enough recruits north of the Border, with the sector expecting to create 45,000 jobs over the next five years, on top of the 100,000 workers that it already employs.