Grangegorman Quarter
The Grangegorman Urban Quarter is a proposed education, health and community development by the Grangegorman Development Agency for Dublin Institute of Technology and the Health Service Executive. The site's design has been provided by the American architectural firm of Moore Ruble Yudell under the direction of Irish-born Architect James Mary O'Connor. The surrounding community is an equal stakeholder in the project and receives technical support from the Grangegorman Community Forum.
Grangegorman, at 29 hectares, is the largest undeveloped site in the City of Dublin. It is expected that the campus will be linked to the proposed Luas extension (Line BX&D) from the city centre to Broombridge (Railway Station).
On July 17th 2012 The Grangegorman Development Agency was awarded funding from the Irish Government as apart of a €2.5billion stimulus package for the country. The first major construction project has started onsite, with the new replacement facility for St. Brendans Hopsital due to finish at the end of 2012. The first construction work to take place as part of the new DIT campus is to start in 2013 with the temporary refurbishment of several listed buildings. These will acoommodate 1,400 staff and students, who move in 2014. A further 10,000 staff and students will move by 2017 into two major quads which are being built a public private partnerships. When fully completed Grangegorman will cater for up to 20,000 staff and students and for the first time all 39 sites which DIT occupy will be in one place.
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