Student accommodation firm Ziggurat buys Dublin sites

UK company plans €400m Irish investment, building 4,000 rooms

Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 10:03

Joe Brennan

Photograph: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

Photograph: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg

UK student accommodation provider Ziggurat has bought a number of sites in Dublin’s north city centre as part of a €400 million Irish expansion plan, after redeveloping the former Montrose hotel near UCD in recent years.

Among the purchased properties is a site on Dublin’s Upper Dominic St, just off Bolton Street where a 380-bed facility will be built, Ziggurat co-founder Matthew McAdden said in an interview with Newstalk.

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