Up to 500 construction jobs to be created in new ‘City North’

From this week’s Galway City Tribune – Up to five hundred jobs are set to be created during the construction of a new urban village off the Tuam Road which has been given the green light by Galway City Council – including office blocks, apartments, a hotel, leisure centre, shops, cafés and wine bar.

Planners have approved the new ‘Galway City North’ scheme on 19 acres adjacent to the An Post distribution centre on the Tuam Road, and the Ballybrit and Parkmore industrial estates.

The project – described as a “huge investment” and “game changer” for the north and east of the city – will deliver four office blocks between four and five storeys high, creating space for up to 4,000 workers.

IDA Ireland told the project backers, Strategic Land Investments, it is firmly of the view that the scheme “will attract significant foreign investment” as there is still a shortage of large, modern office space in the city.

The development will also include eight residential blocks (from two to eight storeys) with a total of 248 apartments; a 222-bedroom hotel over nine floors and a cultural centre with exhibition space, community café and meeting spaces for residents.
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