East Point Business Park facts for kids
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East Point Office Park (Irish: Gnó na Rinne Thoir) in the docklands area of Dublin, Ireland is one of the country's largest business parks, being the place of employment for thousands of people. It is situated in the East Wall area on reclaimed land.
There are over 50 companies in the park with 6,000 employees.
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History
The park is situated on land reclaimed from Dublin Bay and the River Tolka estuary. The first phase of the park was opened for business around 1996. The site where EastPoint is located was intended to be a location for a new City Airport in Dublin, similar to London City Airport. When this plan ultimately proved impractical, the site was acquired by Earlsfort Centre Developments.
Earlsfort engaged Scott Tallon Walker to design the Park and the buildings and the landscaping was designed by Charles Funke. It became necessary, because of the route of the Dublin Port Tunnel, to construct a new bridge and causeway from Alfie Byrne Road to access the Park.
The success of the initial phase of EastPoint led to Earlsfort and Dublin Port Company entering a joint venture to develop a further phase. This brought the size of the Park to Circa 40 acres (160,000 m2) with Circa 140,000 square meters (1.5 m square feet) of mainly offices in 37 buildings. This also provided a further entrance to the Park from Bond Road thus enhancing access from the South City.
Major companies
Major companies based in East Point Office Park include among others Yahoo!, Cisco, Google, Oracle, Enterprise Ireland, Deutsche Bank, CITRIX Systems, QuintilesIms, Ergo, FINEOS and UPC.
Enterprise Ireland leased one of the buildings within the park to serve as its new head office, in a move aimed at merging its four Dublin offices together at one central location, from the end of 2007.
Location
EastPoint is Dublin’s only central office park, located less than 2 kilometres from the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), the purpose-built Convention Centre Dublin overlooking the River Liffey, and other landmarks such as the 3Arena (formerly known as The O2) venue at the Point Village. O'Connell Street, Dublin city's main thoroughfare is around 35 minutes' walk away. Dublin Airport is 15 minutes away by car via the Dublin Port Tunnel, which is On EastPoint's doorstep.
Access
There are 2 entrances to EastPoint; The front entrance is off Alfie Byrne Road, and the rear entrance is off Bond Road. The park is served by excellent transport links: The Point LUAS station is a 15-minute walk away, while Clontarf Dart Station will take 10 minutes. Connolly and Docklands train stations are also convenient options.
While there is no direct bus service, there are free shuttle bus services which run between the park and - Clontarf Dart Station Mon-Fri all day including Bank Holidays, and Saturday mornings. - the Point LUAS stop Mon-Fri morning and evening, with additional late service from the park.
Those using Dublin Bus can alight at stops in Marino/Fairview and take the shuttle bus from Clontarf DART station to the park. From the bus stop on the Clontarf Road, East Point Business Park is a 10-minute walk via the Alfie Byrne Road.
Facilities and amenities
The park's amenities and facilities include sandwich bars and coffee shops, a bar, a physical therapy clinic, a weekly gourmet food market provided by Irish Village markets along with weekly pilates and bootcamp classes
Location and transport
EastPoint is Dublin's only central office park, located less than 2 kilometres from the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC), the purpose-built Convention Centre Dublin overlooking the River Liffey, and other landmarks such as the 3Arena (formerly known as The O2) venue at the Point Village.
The park is not served directly by any public transport. To alleviate this, a shuttle bus fleet provide free-of-charge service to Clontarf Road railway station during railway operating hours; and to near the Point Village stop on the Luas red line during peak hours.
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People working inside one of the buildings within East Point Business Park
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East Point Business Park in 2008, showing buildings housing left-to-right Eircom, Lexmark, and Oracle
