As the government courts more international money for Ireland’s rental sector, tenants say they want more transparency around who they are renting from.
Staycity say they are considering various options for the arts and cultural spaces, and want to put the square behind a gate to prevent anti-social behaviour at night.
It recently gave the old music college on Chatham Row over for a year for use as artists’ studios linked to the PressUp Hospitality Group’s Dean Hotel.
After years of work and hundreds of thousand of euro, Vanessa Fielding is about ready to throw open the refurbished warehouse that is now part of The Complex arts space.
Whether parking is the best use for a council-owned site in Beggars Bush was also among the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at meetings recently.
The rent’s up and Ranelagh Arts can’t pay, so it’s out 8 October and hasn’t found a new home yet. This is one more change in a changing neighbourhood, and one more lost arts space in the city.
Dublin city council is looking for proposals for what to do with the old Pigeon House Hotel and power station. Some councillors would like to see them turned into artists’ studios, overlooking the bay, right by the beach.
