Trinity College Dublin's €130 million plans for a bioscience building on Pearse Street will also incorporate a new entrance to Pearse Station, a supermarket, shops and a significant commercial element. The mixed-use scheme is to be developed by the college in partnership with developers PJ Walls, which will operate the retail and commercial element of the scheme for 10 years before it reverts back to college ownership. The deal, according to Paul Mangan, director of buildings with TCD, aims to maximise the value of the site and provide the college with space in the future. "We don't need 30,000sq m [322,917sq ft] immediately but in 10 years we will," he said. The 0.5-hectare site, which has been used as an overflow car-park for the college for the last 20 years and was once owned by An Post, is adjacent to the university's Goldsmith Hall building and runs down the length of the street to Sandwith Street Upper. Designed by RKD Architects, the 10-storey building will incorporate a €70 million academic building of 18,500sq m (193,750sq ft) which will be dedicated to multi-disciplinary bioscience research and will comprise research labs, lecture theatres and academic facilities.
