New era for Ireland’s oldest city: Investment can unlock the potential of Waterford
The planned demolition, shortly, of an imposing but abandoned century-old grain store on a Waterford quay closes a chapter on the city’s once-treasured industrial and maritime heritage.
Despite certain objections and its listing as a preserved structure, with its steel-reinforced concrete construction style being unique in 1905, the Hennebique building is now a blot on the landscape and has no place in an Ireland of the future.
