Limerick's Gardens International ‘set to be fully occupied by end of the year’

A PRIME city centre office development is expected to be fully occupied by the end of the year, it has been confirmed.
Gardens International, located at Henry Street, is already home to a number of blue-chip firms including, most significantly, its anchor tenant, the aircraft lessor Nordic Aviation Capital.
At this month’s metropolitan district meeting, Social Democrats councillor Elisa O’Donovan sought an update on which companies were located at the state-of-the-art site, which opened in 2019.
In a written response, Enda Power, the chief executive of the site’s owner Limerick Twenty Thirty said the offices are at 85% occupancy.

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“Heads of terms have been signed with a new tenant for the remaining 15% of space at Gardens International. Lease negotiations are advancing and occupation is anticipated before year end, which will bring the building to full occupancy,” Mr Power added.
Alongside Nordic Aviation Capital, other companies operating there include DM Financial, Reddy Architects, health and fitness firm Whoop, plus payments processor North.
Gardens International is located on the site of the former general post office building at 16 to 18 Henry Street.
It was largely out of use from when the post office downsized in 1999 to 2015 when the council purchased it from Nama.
During the boom years in the 2000s, developer Robert Butler had acquired the land, and planned a €40m mixed-use office and commercial development at the site.
It was known as the Hanging Gardens, its unique moniker coming because the former owner of the site, banker William Roche created tiered areas of greenery in the area in the early 19th century, where he would have grown what were then exotic fruit.
Following the council’s acquisition of the site, it transferred it to its property arm, Limerick Twenty Thirty for development, and was renamed Gardens International.
There is still a nod to the former name of the site, with a recently-opened coffee shop at the Henry Street-Lower Glentworth Street junction being named Babylon.