City plans €100m Government Quarter

WATERFORD is on the brink of a jobs and services bonanza as plans emerge for a new €100 million Government Quarter in the city centre.

As many as 500 public servants will work from state-of-the art offices to be developed on a prime site stretching from City Hall on The Mall to the courthouse complex on Catherine Street and taking in the former ESB buildings on The Mall, the Waterford City Council site at Bolton Street and the site of the current Waterford City Fire Service headquarters.

Documents and preliminary drawings for the project outline how a series of connected high-quality buildings will transform a triangle in the city centre to create a suite of buildings that will become Waterford’s equivalent to Dublin’s Merrion Square, where Government Buildings are located.