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THE GO-AHEAD has been given for new student accommodation in Dublin.
The 400-bed facility will be built on Mill Street in the Newmarket area in the south of the city.
The facility will be operated by the Global Student Accommodation (GSA) Group and will have the name ‘Uninest’ once completed.
When will it open?
While the new accommodation will provide extra beds in an under-supplied market, it is not expected to open until September 2017.
However, it is estimated that the construction and refurbishment phase of the project will create around 150 new jobs, with the main construction contracts being given to locally-based contractors.
When open, it will have shops, a restaurant and a commercial space for local businesses.
Once built 15 full-time positions will be created.
The building will be between five and seven storeys high and has this week been given planning permission by An Bord Pleanala.
Who is responsible for this?
The site will be developed by the GSA Group, which has its headquarters in Dubai, in conjunction with the Creedon Group, a property investment and management company based in Dublin.
The GSA group’s European chief executive, Tim Mitchell, said last October that the company was planning on investing as much as €250 million in Dublin over the next few years.
Work on the site will also focus on the refurbishment of No. 10 Mill Street, a run-down townhouse that is one of the oldest buildings in Dublin.
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We need so much more of this type of student accommodation.
The problem with private accommodation is having to take a 12 month lease. It’s like throwing 3 months rent down the drain
Good news, and it’s not a monstrosity either. Looks fit for purpose. I’m so glad I’m not a student looking for Uni digs in this climate. Must be very hard for parents and students alike and there’s no doubt only the well off can send their kids to college in Dublin now, especially those that don’t have family there.
This is great news for students and parents. Hopefully the rent will be kept in check on not sky rocket just because of demand.
I always thought Universities and college should supply a greater amount of accommodation as a requirement. Like have accommodation owned and rented by the univerisities themselves a certain percentage of their capacity. It seems that courses are getting bigger and bigger to get the reg fees and really not helping with the accommodation problem.
5-7 stories is such a waste of vertical space.
Must be for 400 Syrian students…
Plenty of country students to fill it.
I wonder how much a slightly used cruise ship would cost. Dock one in Dún Laoghaire, one on the quays and you probably have decent enough capacity for all the students who need it. Why can’t Ireland get a bit more creative to help solve these problems? We have a problem now, so let’s build something that will be ready for students in 2017 or 2018 and sure feck the students who are homeless or getting ripped off right now!
You’d need the army to control that place.
To keep the Dublin druggies out I presume you mean?
To keep the student mob in order and stop them from wrecking the place.
Party Central.
“…students wrecking the place… druggies wrecking the place… blah, blah, blah”. Yawn
Forget the shops and restaurants
Shops are closing everywhere
Just a source of wages for the council
At rack rates.
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