Dublin Airport City

*sigh* – this is only an idea and big ideas in this country tend not to become a reality. How would they fund this and is the office market in Dublin not a little over stretched atm:confused:

The figures don’t seem to add up. They’re spending 4bn, and hope that it will contribute 1bn to the economy.

@Blisterman wrote:

The figures don’t seem to add up. They’re spending 4bn, and hope that it will contribute 1bn to the economy.

Neither does the infrastructure. The M1 Airport interchange for example should never have been built in its variant roundabout form. It should have been completely freeflow. The metro wont be all its cracked up to be either.

@Blisterman wrote:

The figures don’t seem to add up. They’re spending 4bn, and hope that it will contribute 1bn to the economy.

typo – it’s 1 billion pa

Dublin Airport plans to invest €4 billion to redevelop 350 acres into a business and retail park over the next twenty years.

The outline of the proposal was unveiled by the Dublin Airport Authority and the outgoing Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in Dublin today.

Entitled “Dublin’s Airport City”, the project aims to create 10,000 new jobs in 600,000 sqare meters of office space to the east of the airport with a further 40,000 sqare meters of retail and hotel space.

A third-level institute for research and training in aviation services is also included in the plan.

Mr Ahern said the plan would “deliver a vibrant new economic hub” for the city and would create “one of Europe’s premier airport economic zones”.

The project has been planned by architectural firm HOK and the financial advisors as Rothschild and KPMG.

The new development will be integrated with Fingal County Council’s 2006 local area plan and the Government and the DAA plan to “explore how best to optimise the planning process” to deliver the project.

No details in relation to funding were revealed. However, the project will be funded independently of the Terminal 2 development under way at the airport.

DAA chief executive Declan Collier said grouping travel-intensive businesses near the airport would sustain its ongoing development.

The project will be developed in 5-year stages and each building will be environmentally sustainable “to ensure the development is self-sustaining”.

The DAA said it planned to use this to attract companies that are focused on sustainable growth.

Access to and from the new development will be via a “high speed automated people mover linking with the Metro” at the airport. The DAA says this will allow staff in the new zone to get from their office to check in at the airport in six minutes.

automated people mover im worried!!!

how much of this money is from the public purse???

…says the man – sorry, woman – who advocated shamrock-shaped Metro tunnels.

I wonder will they chance their arms with the Strategic Infrastructure process? That might be what they mean by “explore how best to optimise the planning process”.

Makes one wonder then why the Govt doesn’t “explore how best to optimise the planning process” for everyone on a daily basis. :rolleyes:

@missarchi wrote:

automated people mover im worried!!!

how much of this money is from the public purse???

Chances are if this thing ever gets built, let say for argument sake on a scale of 1 to 10 then that chance being 0, that people mover would end up as a bus service branded as something like THE SUPER-DOUPER POLAR BEAR SAVING AL GORE LOVIN GREEN ECO BITCH BUS, sorry TROLLEY.

The whole thing looks like another public body getting horny for CGI in lieu of actually doing something.

dallas comes to town, lets replace the word ‘city’ with the term ‘business park’, city west on the north side, now ye have it.

emm…. a couple of questions.

1 Where exactly is this site?.
2 I notice you cant hear the planes take off and land, why? Is the area sound proof?
3 I notice that the weather is truly lovely (like every fecken montage). Do designers know that it is overcast for most of the year, and it does rain a lot.
4 Who exactly is suppose to live here, not families as far as I can see.

It does remind me of Shamrock Island. 😀

I’ve been told that this includes development in areas where previous proposals have been opposed by the DAA/Aer Rianta on aviation safety grounds. Does anyone know if there’s any truth in that?

so…..what happened to this??another project down the shitter??

this project isn’t due for first phase completion untill 2017 so there’s quiet some time for the planning prosses

Well the DAA has much more immediate problems to deal with at the moment, with Fingal CC conditions placed for the go ahead of the parallel runway giving the DAA a major headache. :rolleyes:

terminal 2 seems to be going well on the plus side

2017?!?! jesus sure we’ll all be dead by then!!:D