City centre development a game changer for Galway

Developers have lodged ambitious plans to transform the area behind Ceannt Station into Augustine Hill – a new urban quarter featuring eleven new streets, four large public spaces and twelve contemporary buildings linking Galway Bay to Eyre Square.

In one of the biggest developments ever to be lodged in Galway city, the massive project – estimated to cost in the region of €320 million and taking six years to build – will have 376 apartments, a shopping centre over two floors and a network of restaurants and cafes as well as a cinema, offices and hotel.

The centrepiece of Augustine Hill is the retail and leisure building described as the “Island”, which includes a publicly accessible ‘park in the sky’ with a capacity for 350 people.

A spokesman for Edward Capital and Summix Capital stated: “Cosmopolitan, open and urban – Augustine Hill is designed to be a one-of-a-kind place. Designed as an integrated district and central part of Galway, it connects places to live and work with attractive cultural offers and leisure facilities as well as innovative retail and entertainment concepts.”

“Our ambition is that Augustine Hill be the most sustainable scheme delivered in Ireland, one that complies with but also looks beyond current sustainability guidelines to where we anticipate guidelines on energy performance to be in ten to twenty years from now. Urban densification is something we in Galway have for too long neglected and must embrace.”

Full story is in this week’s Connacht Tribune, on sale this Thursday.

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