11/01/2008

Hotel Planned for Dublin Gasworks Site

Planning permission is being sought to turn the vacant apartment block at the Victorian gasometer, Ringsend, Dublin into a 520-bedroom hotel.

Developer Liam Carroll aims to make significant changes to the fabric of the protected Alliance building which has lain vacant since 2006.

(GK)


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