Robert Gordon University the move to the main campus at Garthdee. Also located here was the old City Centre campus. Many of these buildings were sold over the years to Robert Gordon's College for school use, while others are for sale or have been sold for redevelopment. In July 2014, the St. Andrew Street building (which had been replaced by the Sir Ian Wood building at the Garthdee campus) was sold to the Canadian hotel Sandman Hotels group to be converted to a 4-star hotel. The 12,000 square- metre building was constructed around 1908 and had served as the Aberdeen College of Education
Robert P. Gordon Robert P. Gordon Robert Patterson Gordon (born 9 November 1945) was Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge from 1995 to 2012. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Gordon was educated at the Methodist College Belfast and at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where as an undergraduate, Gordon was placed in the first class of the Oriental Studies Tripos. In 1973 he earned the PhD at the University of Cambridge with a thesis entitled "A Study of Targum Jonathan to the Minor Prophets from Nahum to Malachi", written under the supervision of Professor J.A. Emerton. In 2001 he was awarded