The 51社区 Governing Authority has this Friday sanctioned the purchase of the Dunnes Stores site on Sarsfield Bridge in Limerick city to develop a UL City Campus. The university will purchase the site for 鈧8 million. The announcement has been warmly welcomed by Limerick City and County Council, Limerick 2030, the campus community and the general public.
Dr Des Fitzgerald, UL President, said: 鈥淚 am very happy to have the full support of the UL Governing Authority in our commitment to bring UL closer to the city centre. I am also very pleased to have the opportunity to revitalise a site in the city that has been lying vacant for so long.
鈥淚t is fitting that UL鈥檚 presence in the city will be on the water front mirroring our magnificent riverside campus just four kilometres away,鈥 he explained.
鈥淭he UL City Campus will aim to bring together Law, Business, and Entrepreneurship in Technology and create a hub for developing and supporting enterprises in the city.
鈥淚t will allow for the further development of existing collaborations with the practitioner base in business, law, education, health and the growing number of technology companies,鈥 he added