The Irish Times

Hickeys

Hickey's Fabrics headquarters at Parkgate Street, Dublin 8 - opposite Heuston Railway Station - has got planning permission for an office and residential development on its prime 0.7-hectare site at the junction of Parkgate Street and Seán Heuston Bridge. The scheme will incorporate 139 apartments in two nine-storey blocks, a public plaza overhanging the River Liffey, a six-storey glazed office block and a new pedestrianised street connecting Parkgate Street to the river. It will also involve the repair and refurbishment of three protected structures on the site, including a stone archway, a turret, and a square tower on the river front. Hickey's is redeveloping the site as a result of its expansion into the retail warehouse sector in recent years which has reduced the necessity for a city centre headquarters. Scott Tallon Walker is designing the scheme which will involve the demolition of a number of buildings on the site, including the factory which was rebuilt after the demolition of the original Royal Phoenix Iron Works in the 1880s, an outbuilding and number 43, Parkgate House.