REDEVELOPMENT SITE:AN INTERESTING new redevelopment opportunity will arise shortly off the N11/Stillorgan Road at Galloping Green in south Co Dublin when a convent on a site of 0.28 of a hectare (0.7 of an acre) goes for sale by tender.
Liam Stones of the Bannon agency is quoting a guide price of €4 million for the convent of the Daughters of the Cross who for many years ran a school for autistic children and who are to remain in the area.
The villa-style buildings have 1,120sq m (12,055sq ft) of accommodation over three levels and, according to the selling agent, would be suitable for conversion into a health facility, education or community centre, crèche, nursery, retirement home or a sports club.
The agent also suggests that the convent could also end up as a corporate headquarters with at least 30 on-site car-parking spaces.
The front of the convent site along the Stillorgan Road was designated as open space by Brian Cullen's Jackson Homes for their adjoining Beechwood Court apartment development.
That scheme ranges in height from two to eight storeys and includes 314 apartments. On the opposite side of the Stillorgan Road, Glenkerrin Homes has completed development work on most its stylish apartment scheme, The Grange.
The convent building is not listed for preservation and was originally used as a home by a family named Cullen. Like a lot of other institutional buildings in the Dublin area it might well end up being redeveloped as an office or apartment scheme.
