Harry Crosbie proposes €25m development for Grand Canal Docks site via IrishTimesBiz
In a second one, he wants to develop a “double-sized” Vicar Street, with a capacity for 2,000 people that would be “built down on the floor of the cut stone dock, with an acoustic bubble overhead”.
“This was a place of communal gathering in every town and city. Its use would be monster markets of all kinds, festivals of all kinds. It would be a people magnet, and in constant use,” his letter states. When contacted, Mr McDonagh said Waterways Ireland had submitted a proposal to the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage to sell the site and use the proceeds to fund at least €30 million of works to upgrade and develop other assets in Dublin. This includes greenways that would connect the canals and run through the Phoenix Park, a boardwalk alongside Google’s new campus at the former Boland’s Mill site, and a new visitor centre in the Grand Canal Docks.