Drogheda jobs

southlouth type

rafferr wrote: »

I would not hold too much creedance with the ability of an individual TD being able to sway a multinational to establish in one particulary area or another. They will assess each location on their merits and what suits the business.
Dundalk both benefited and suffered from large multinationals; when a large multinational leaves a town the impact is severe. There are a considerable number of empty industrial premises in Dundalk that are testiment to this and perhaps these same buildings are also very attractive to potential investors along with the IT and the research campus.
Drogheda has suffered at the hands of poor planning and design and is a town of two halves to some extents due to geography (part louth, part Meath; the river etc). Like most towns in Ireland, there has been a lack of foresight in planning that results in traffic congestion, poor roads and poor infrastructure.

Drogheda is not a town divided by the river or by county boundaries and has not been for hundreds of years , when you cross the river you are in louth as far up as colpe etc etc . Does the town planning in dundalk or navan give them some sort of advantage of Drogheda ? Both those towns have there faults as far as design goes dont they ? Every nonsense excuse in the book has been churned out for years and years as to why the town has suffered , incompetent politicians and an idiotic county and borough council have made many many mistakes in this town and will seemingly continue to do so . Just look at there new traffic layout on the dublin rd

LH2011

southlouth type wrote: »

Drogheda is not a town divided by the river or by county boundaries and has not been for hundreds of years , when you cross the river you are in louth as far up as colpe etc etc .

wrong.... the border is up at fiveoaks, just past the entrance, past this and you are in meath.

Johnny Foreigner

The main criteria which attracts business to a town is location.
If a town has a good rail and motorway network nearby then it brings business to that area, especially if it is close to an airport.
Dundalk is well situated as its halfway between the capital cities of Dublin and Belfast.
It has a good rail and motorway service to the 2 cities.
The abundance of vacant large size office units make it more attractive than other towns of a similar size. Businesses are looking for lower rates than they would get in a capital city like Dublin or Belfast. A TD can do very little to sell a town, as the town will market itself if the location, and rates are right. Its also a case of supply and demand.

Pighead

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

The main criteria which attracts business to a town is location.
If a town has a good rail and motorway network nearby then it brings business to that area, especially if it is close to an airport.
Dundalk is well situated as its halfway between the capital cities of Dublin and Belfast.
It has a good rail and motorway service to the 2 cities.
The abundance of vacant large size office units make it more attractive than other towns of a similar size. Businesses are looking for lower rates than they would get in a capital city like Dublin or Belfast. A TD can do very little to sell a town, as the town will market itself if the location, and rates are right. Its also a case of supply and demand.

It also has DKIT. Apparently the fact that there was a 3rd level institution in the town was a major factor in Prometric coming to Dundalk.

southlouth type

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

The main criteria which attracts business to a town is location.
If a town has a good rail and motorway network nearby then it brings business to that area, especially if it is close to an airport.
Dundalk is well situated as its halfway between the capital cities of Dublin and Belfast.
It has a good rail and motorway service to the 2 cities.
The abundance of vacant large size office units make it more attractive than other towns of a similar size. Businesses are looking for lower rates than they would get in a capital city like Dublin or Belfast. A TD can do very little to sell a town, as the town will market itself if the location, and rates are right. Its also a case of supply and demand.

Excellent post . I could take out the work Dundalk and insert Drogheda tbh .

MugMugs

WindmillWarrior wrote: »

I agree with southlouth type, we defo need more of this kind of opportunity in Drogheda.
As regards office space, theres plenty of it in the town centre. Out of town theres plenty in the Southgate shopping centre as well, not to mention the business parks southlouth type mentions.

Question is though, could you easily and affordably deploy 1000 personel into that Ind Est ? I haven't seen the inside of those buildings but from an outside view, they look quite "industrial"

Also, could you fit 1000 people into Southgate ?

bottomdog

MugMugs wrote: »

Question is though, could you easily and affordably deploy 1000 personel into that Ind Est ? I haven't seen the inside of those buildings but from an outside view, they look quite "industrial"

Also, could you fit 1000 people into Southgate ?

No about 300 tops, the IDA does not market Drogheda and PayPal were not shown the town, Dundalk is the priority, there is the rare company that demands that they be allowed establish in Drogheda but they are rare.

lamoss

To be fair their is no suitable building of 100, 000 sq feet in Drogheda.
To give you some idea of size, would need a building the size of the big tesco with its carparks to be sufficient.

These call centres operate 24 hours a day and you will need parking for all the staffs cars. ( 1000 Staff )
The building itself would need to have raised computer flooring for the many miles of cabling required and 100% reliable power supply. Some computer centres have their own generation system to provide uninterrupted power.
They also need full airconditioning to keep everything cool as well.
You will need excellent broadband and back up so full satellite broadband is required as well.

These buildings are huge,they are about the size of a football pitch inside some are even bigger :eek:.
I have been in the xerox complex in Dundalk and have been inside of some of the buildings there,as they were previously RBS/ Halifax they have the space and infrastructure already.
The old Quantum plant on the IDA site could also be a option.

southlouth type

bottomdog wrote: »

No about 300 tops, the IDA does not market Drogheda and PayPal were not shown the town, Dundalk is the priority, there is the rare company that demands that they be allowed establish in Drogheda but they are rare.

This just proves the point , why is Dundalk a priority ? And why werent paypal shown the town ? Are we some sort of second class citizens or something ? The whole idea that there is suitable venues in Dundalk like zerox just proves the point that there has always been favoritism towards the north of the county when it comes to jobs .

MugMugs

bottomdog wrote: »

MugMugs wrote: »

Question is though, could you easily and affordably deploy 1000 personel into that Ind Est ? I haven't seen the inside of those buildings but from an outside view, they look quite "industrial"

Also, could you fit 1000 people into Southgate ?

No about 300 tops, the IDA does not market Drogheda and PayPal were not shown the town, Dundalk is the priority, there is the rare company that demands that they be allowed establish in Drogheda but they are rare.

So there's no reason promitech couldn't have located into drogheda. Odd....

10green bottles

If Paypal decides to go to Limerick will it be called "Yeah,you will Paypal" ??:pac:.

*coat on*

Polar Ice

MugMugs wrote: »

Also, could you fit 1000 people into Southgate ?

You couldn't fit that many people into all the office space in southgate.

Regardless, most of the space is already used. There simply isn't space in southgate for a second multinational.