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The South Dublin County Council agreed to sell 48 acres of land for € 26.4 million to a company that plans to build the state’s largest television and film studios.
The deal, agreed Monday night, will allow the sale of land at Grange Castle Business Park in Dublin 22 to a company called Lens Media Ltd, which intends to develop a media park with 12 sound stages, 100,000 square feet. of workshop space and another 100,000 square feet of office space.
Lens Media is supported by former Windmill Lane founder James Morris, film and television producer Alan Moloney, who has been responsible for the production of drama like The Clinic, and American producer Gary Levinsohn, who was nominated for a Academy Award for the movie Saving Private Ryan. The company declined to name other investors in the project.
Lens Media said it would initially invest € 125 million in developing the media park, which, once completed, will provide 1,800 direct functions and a similar amount of ancillary work. Construction of the facility, located near Clondalkin, is expected to create 1,200 to 1,500 jobs. The company’s planned investment figure includes the purchase price.
The company’s operation will sideline major multinationals operating at Grange Castle, such as Pfizer, Microsoft and Google.
“The Grange Castle Media Park will be a world-class facility. Its size and specifications will help propel Ireland to become a major world-class player in the creative screen industries, creating thousands of long-term sustainable jobs for Dublin and across the country, ”said a Lens Media spokeswoman.
Morris and Moloney had been looking to develop a studio complex in the Poolbeg Strategic Development Zone, the former site of the Irish Glass Bottle.
U2 singer Bono advocated the project and pressured former environment minister Alan Kelly, now the leader of the Labor Party, to support the study. Actors Liam Neeson and Cillian Murphy also spoke in support of the project.
The facility, if it receives planning permission, will join other studios on the island of Ireland, such as Ardmore and Ashford studios in Wicklow, Troy studios in Limerick and Harbor studios in Belfast.
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