A MARKETING campaign is to get under way this week to sell sites in the new 280-acre Food Central park beside Dublin Airport which was launched last week.
The park is already receiving and producing food products before they are distributed nationally. It is estimated that about 75 per cent of Ireland’s retail food distribution operates from within a 25km radius of the park.
Nicholas Corson of agents Finnegan Menton is to handle sales of the sites which cost €250,000 an acre in the first phase of the park.
The promoters will also be offering completed buildings, designed to the specific needs of occupiers, for sale or rent. The park is being developed on land owned for decades by fruit and vegetable producer Keelings.
The key features of the park includes its proximity to the M1, the M50, port tunnel and the airport.
Three companies already operating out of the park, Keelings, Donnellys and Brakes, employ over 1,000 people. The businesses encompass a range of growing, processing and packing, food service and logistics operations. Though all three are competitors they cooperate on shared services and inter-company trade.
Commenting on the park’s objective, William Keeling, managing director, said that as the facility develops its potential to deliver an environmentally attractive food park, harnessing synergies, sharing services, generating new opportunities and adding value to the food and drink sector could be realised in an environment which could generate up to 5,000 jobs.
David O’Connor, Fingal County Manager, said Fingal – “the food county”– was a great location in which to develop a dynamic food related business in an attractive and supportive environment.
