Once mighty Rolls-Royce building is torn down
The diggers moved in to the former Rolls-Royce plant at Nerston as demolition work continues at the site.
The plant shut its doors at the end of last year when operations were transferred to the Inchinnan plant in Glasgow.
The aerospace giant, which once employed 4000 people in East Kilbride, severed a long-standing association that has lasted almost since the New Town was founded in the 1940s.
A public consultation was held into plans to transform the Mavor Park site and proposals for a mixed use residential, retail and business development were rubber stamped by South Lanarkshire Council in April.
Rolls-Royce is just one of a number of high profile companies to leave the town in recent years.
But is hoped that the plans will breathe new life into the site.
The buildings and structures on site are currently being demolished and the area cleared.
The new development will be made up of 354 residential units including eight blocks of three-storey flats, two-storey terraced dwellings, semi-detached dwellings and detached dwellings.
There will also be two retail units in the north east of the site with the larger of the units being a 1,579 square metre food store and the smaller unit a 903 square metre non-food retail unit.
They will face Mavor Avenue with 139 parking spaces provided.
The development will also include an industrial unit for Use Class 5 (General Industry) and Use Class 6 (Storage and Distribution) in the Western part of the site.