I’m off to the official opening of St Andrew Square this morning. In some way it feels like the end of a journey that started for me when I joined the board of Edinburgh City Centre Management almost exactly five years ago. The big item on the agenda at my first meeting was a plan to turn the shabby old private garden (littered with needles and empty cans) into a sparkling public space. There was a lot of hard work behind the scenes but here it is, a fantastic success, and I am more than a little curious to see how the capital’s great and good will mark the opening of the garden that has been so thrivingly open since April…