From IDA magazine Innovation Ireland in 2014
This morning.
In The Irish Times, Karlin Lillington writes:
Let’s call it the San Francisco-fication of Dublin.
…The non-stop expansion of the tech sector, especially of multinationals, is a major (though not the only) engine behind these changes.
In comes yet another company, cornering another area of Dublin’s Docklands; up go pricey apartments to accommodate high-salaried employees.
Developers arrange deals to take social and affordable housing requirements off the table, trading them out to already-saturated communities at the edge of Dublin without adequate transport infrastructure.
Then, in a pincer movement, this limited market is further squeezed by landlords who AirBnB their properties…
How Silicon Docks is killing Dublin (Karlin Lillington, The Irish Times)
Pic: IDA Ireland
Mean while…
Today’s iIish Times
Localisation Girls writes:
Whither the role of Irish media and property supplements and ad revenue in tech g-entrification of Dublin…
Earlier: Dreams of Californication