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€80m Sligo Project To Create Jobs

A €80m Sligo mixed-use development is to create 500 construction jobs, it has been revealed.

The town centre scheme was finally granted permission to proceed by the planning board last month, following 13 years of wrangling.

Treasury  Holdings will develop the commercial and property project, which will

include 30  shops, a 1,000 capacity car park, 27 apartments and office space.

The Wine Street Car Park development will form the final piece of a €250m centre-

block master plan by the local authority to revive the town centre.

Building work is expected to commence next year, creating up to 500 construction jobs.

Niall Kavanagh, Director of Development at Treasury Holdings Ireland, said: "We are delighted to have been finally given the go-ahead for this eagerly awaited and important scheme."  Mr Kavanagh said he is hopeful that "with the support and goodwill of all involved, we can deliver this development in the shortest timescale possible".

Conor Ronan, who is part of the Sligo-based development consortium, said: "Sligo is finally going to get the badly needed redevelopment of its town centre. "Treasury Holdings will aim to attract top class national and international retailers to the scheme which will ensure Sligo Town Centre becomes the retail destination of choice for the people of the northwest of Ireland." Planning permission has already been granted for the redevelopment of a nearby site on Adelaide Street.