Friday 6 April 2007

€100m plan for GAA site

A MAJOR €100m development, including a shopping centre and financial services centre on an 11-acre site, could soon be built in Tralee, Co Kerry.

Planning application for the project is expected to be filed soon with Kerry County Council and, if given the go-ahead, will create at least 800 jobs.

The proposed development, which was put together by a Kerry-based business consortium, would take place at the site of John Mitchell's GAA club and the GAA county board's Austin Stack Park.

If it goes ahead, a 15,000-seater stadium will be built for the Kerry GAA Board in Tralee.

Those behind the development include well-known developer and quantity surveyor, John Casey, and businessman, Seamus O'Halloran.

They are proposing a mixed-use development for the adjoining 11-acre site in the town centre.

The project will require the rezoning of Austin Stack Park and theobtaining of planningpermission.

Barry Duggan
Irish Independent

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