€14m innovation centre will accommodate up to 60 businesses
An artist impression of the €14 million Innovation Centre

€14m innovation centre will accommodate up to 60 businesses

A NEW €14 million innovation centre has commenced construction targeting a delivery for 2023.

At the recent monthly meeting of the Tallaght Area Committee, in response to a question by Cllr Charlie O’Connor, South Dublin County Council provided an update on the Tallaght facility.

The innovation centre is a council-led initiative that will be a four-storey, 2,980m.sq. building of “significant architectural merit”, according to the council.

It will provide three floors of flexible office accommodation to support start-up enterprises, and will have capacity to accommodate up to 60 businesses.

Within the building, there will be a public area on the ground floor with a town hall space and a café, complete with a co-working space and lettable offices in various sizes on the upper floors of the building.

The innovation centre will be located on council-owned land (knowm as Maelruan’s field) and front directly onto a new urban plaza, as part of a wider new urban district called Innovation Quarter Tallaght.

According to council chief executive officer, Daniel McLoughlin, the Innovation Quarter Tallaght also includes a new Affordable Housing Scheme, Innovation Square, as well as Tallaght District Heating network.

The Tallaght District Heating Scheme will use excess heat generated by the servers at Amazon off the Belgard Road farmed and redistributed to provide low-cost hot water and heating to buildings throughout Tallaght.

“The delivery of the Innovation Centre will also compliment current investment of over €80m in infrastructure projects underway in Tallaght, such as the delivery of a new Heritage Centre, the completion of Tallaght Stadium bringing it to 10,000-seater capacity and a major public realm enhancement programme for Tallaght Town Centre,” said Mr McLoughlin.

“The new Innovation Centre will play a major role in developing start-up enterprises and contributing to the Dublin economy, providing cutting edge facilities, a range of start-up programmes, including training, mentoring, funding supports and skills development, where in the longer-term, this new facility will support the creation of over 1,000 jobs, which will be worth €70m to the economy.”

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