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Laura Farrell 🇮🇪🇪🇺🦄's avatar

Good point but lets not forget that a huge amount of infrastructure was originally installed in Cherrywood to attract key business tenants to the area - it was the first place in Ireland to have fibre optic networking, and its transformation coincided with the finishing of the M50 and M11 corridors which made it accessible by road (and later, LUAS). It also had the advantage of the post bust phase being a relatively contiguous 400 acre plot of land that needed from scratch installation of road, electricity, gas and telecoms rather than just upgrading an existing country village.

But it is a good model, and certainly one that should merit consideration elsewhere.

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Michael Byrne's avatar

Thank Laura, good points. Am I right in thinking all of Cherrywood was in an SDZ and the entire development is owned by Hines?

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Laura Farrell 🇮🇪🇪🇺🦄's avatar

I think so - that's a recent development though. Many of the original zoning decisions in the area were pretty controversial, Carrickmines Valley, Cherrywood, and Carrickmines interchange (Park Developments), many found their way into the Moriarty Tribunal. But its a very well served and serviced area that has many amenities, excellent transport, and access to a huge pool of jobs. Not sure who owns it now but there is an SDZ for the area because of its good infrastructure.

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