Authority blocked airport operator from acquiring site earlier this year
The Irish competition authority has said it would be open to looking at airport operator DAA taking out a short-term lease on the former Quick Park car park near Dublin Airport, even after it blocked the authority from acquiring the site with 6,200 spaces earlier this yearThe chairman of the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission , Brian McHugh, told reporters on Wednesday that the authority “would be very keen to assist inasmuch as we could” to see a reopening of the car park, if the...
Mr McHugh said that there are “no obvious” competition issues with any of the “multiple parties that are interested in buying the site” taking out a short-term lease.What impact will remote working have on the future of Dublin city centre? He clarified that no short-term lease agreement has been put to the CCPC for an assessment. “But we have spoken to the wider parties to say we are certainly open to a short-term lease,” he said.recently made a €70 million-plus bid for the former Quick Park car park, which the airport’s chief executive described as “the best car park in the whole campus”. The site is owned by property developer Gerry Gannon.
Mr Jacobs said at the time that DAA had come close to a deal to lease the site from Mr Gannon to operate it for the months of June and July – but that the owner withdrew from that process.
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