€400m development to include 19-storey tower block

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2003 / November 19 2003: €400m development to include 19-storey tower block

A major new docklands development is planned opposite the entrance to the new port tunnel in Dublin. Another new neighbourhood is about to be created in the Dublin docklands with the lodging of a planning application for a huge mixed use development including a 19-storey tower block near the Point Depot. Merchants Gate, the €400 million regeneration project on a site of almost nine acres opposite the entrance to the new port tunnel off East Wall Road will include 721 apartments, a four-star hotel with 200 bedrooms (already approved by the planners), a 20-suite boutique hotel, 38,000sqm (409,000 sq ft) of mainly offices, and community-based uses including social and affordable housing, a gym, swimming-pool, restaurants, neighbourhood shopping, community care centre and crèche.

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