Developer seeks to alter €80m plan

The developer behind one of Ireland’s most successful tech and software office campuses has unveiled ambitious plans to build hundreds of apartments in the area as part of an €80m office project.

John Cleary Developments (JCD), which built the two City Gate office campuses in Mahon — home to one of the largest concentrations of US multinationals in Ireland and where some 2,500 people work — is in pre-planning talks with City Hall to build around 220 apartments on part of a nearby site earmarked for a 280,000sq ft office complex.

City councillors will decide the fate of the project at a crucial rezoning meeting on Monday night.