The leader of South Lanarkshire Council has warned East Kilbride town centre faces "radical decline" unless its fortunes are transformed.
It comes after the owners of EK, East Kilbride - Sapphire - have become insolvent, plunging the future of the centre into uncertainty.
Blair Nimmo and Alistair McAlinden of Interpath Advisory were appointed joint administrators at the Court of Session in Edinburgh earlier this week.