darkman

I dont think anyone has said the U2 tower has been scrapped. The DDDA say they are near to signing the contracts and construction would begin before the end of the year or early next year.

Im more concerned about the Point tower. I think this has been scrapped. I drove by the site yesterday and there is absolutely no sign of the tower going up. In fact I thought there was no room left for where the tower is meant to be! Maybe im wrong but I think this tower is not going ahead.

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Seriously………..wtf?

http://www.dublinairportauthority.com/media-centre/presentations-speeches/AGM140408.pdf
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DAA presentation to press on current developments. I have to say – whilst I hated Aer Rianta with a passion – the drive and determination to press ahead quickly with all the nessacary upgrades is impressive by this country’s standards. The only criticism I can think of atm is probrably that they should press ahead with plans for a third terminal even if it has to be built by the private sector. Nice terminal T2 but competition is ultimately what is needed at DA.

A worker on the site of the M3 on boards.ie says that Irish troops are moving in later today to clear out the protestors (should be interesting). This would follow reports in the media that the protestors have dug underground tunnels……..

Unconfirmed of course but watch out for news later apparently. Obviously the Gardai are not competent enough to deal with them:rolleyes:

About time IMO if its true.

Sorry – was a bit OTT. My argument would be as above. It is entirely relevant to post articles on this topic relating to Aiport development. Unfortunately for Jim these come mostly from the DAA website – does that make me a PR consultant? Im not a great fan of the DAA let me tell you……….

http://www.dublinairportauthority.com/images/new_hotel.jpg

New €130M Hotel and Car Park Planned for Dublin Airport
Up to 900 jobs could be created at Dublin Airport with the planned €130m development of a four star hotel and multi-storey car park linked directly to the airport’s new passenger terminal T2.

About 550 jobs will be created during the construction phase of the project and when opened, the new hotel is expected to employ about 350 staff.

Plans for the new hotel, which will have up to 470 bedrooms, and the linked multi-storey car park with up to 2,900 spaces, have been submitted by the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) to An Bord Pleanála in recent weeks. The project will be developed in conjunction with Northern Ireland property developer and design and build contractor McAleer & Rushe.

The DAA will own the car park while the hotel, which will operate under InterContinental Hotel’s Crowne Plaza brand, will be owned by Irish hotel operator Tifco. Funding for the project will come from the DAA and its joint venture partners.

Subject to planning, the new 11-storey Crowne Plaza hotel will have a floor area of 28,000 sq metres. In addition to up to 470 bedrooms, it will contain associated business facilities, bars, restaurant, meeting rooms and a state-of-the-art fitness centre.

The spaces in the new multi-storey car park will be divided between short-term public parking, car hire, hotel customers and service vehicles. The new hotel and car park will open in 2010, with the first 750 spaces of the car park operational by April of that year to coincide with the opening of Terminal 2.

The hotel and multi-storey car park will connect directly with T2 and will be located close to the existing passenger terminal. The hotel will also be situated beside the proposed Metro station at Dublin Airport.

“This development will greatly enhance customer choice and convenience for airport users,” said DAA Commercial Director Jack MacGowan. “A terminal-linked hotel with meeting rooms will be particularly beneficial for business travellers,” Mr MacGowan added.

As is now required under planning legislation, the DAA has recently written to An Bord Pleanála to ascertain whether the planned project should be considered as Strategic Infrastructure under the 2006 Act. Depending on that decision, planning permission for the development will be sought from either An Bord Pleanála or from Fingal County Council, which is the local planning authority.

Co Tyrone based McAleer & Rushe is one of Northern Ireland’s largest commercial property companies and contractors. Over the past decade it has built 40 hotels with a total of 6,500 bedrooms.

Tifco is an Irish company that owns and manages Clontarf Castle Hotel, and the Crowne Plaza and Express By Holiday Inn brands in Ireland. It owns four hotels in Ireland and one in Germany and has two further properties under construction.

Crowne Plaza has almost 300 hotels worldwide and has properties in 51 countries. It operates its brands in Ireland through Tifco. Crowne Plaza has hotels in Dublin and Dundalk with a third due to open in Blanchardstown this summer.

@CC105 wrote:

Cant upload it but it looks great, is the picture from the reverse angle as it looks very different, looks very tall indeed, cannot make out if the eco tower part is added or not to the model. Anybody who dislikes the towers going up in Dubai these days may not like this model. 🙂

Darkman if you are in Dublin pop into any transport hub this evening and you should be able to pick one up.

I could not get it. I will take your words for it that it looks really good. Nothing on Fosters website at all about it yet. I wonder is the model in docklands anywhere?

Any news on this? Or is the project dead?

Yes good news. BTW construction is really flying along. Probrably the quickest ive ever seen anything being built in this country tbh.

Rising sea levels? – This is bullsh*t. As for an Taisce – this sort of behaviour from an organistion who’s apparent role is to protect our heritage against projects in the Docklands – is actually now embarrasing us in the world’s media. A Sydney newspaper also had something similar this morning. Poor little Paddy does not want a 32 storey building in Dublin……….because some little tree hugger said so? 32 storeys!? Environmentalists in most countries dont get out of bed for less then 60!

‘An Taisce fears it will blight the Georgian cityscape on the southern side of the Liffey.’

This is absolute rubbish. Id say the building would want to be twice the height to have this effect. Any little thing to discredit these projects……