The final presentation of the Reimagine Dublin One process. From March 9-13, 2017 an American and Irish team of professionals worked with the Dublin One community to develop a series of regeneration strategies for the neighborhood.

2. Introduction

3. US-Ireland: Our Special
Relationship

4. City-building: An Irish Tradition

5. Background

7. Dublin’s Heart & Soul
…when considering arts and culture, and history, Dublin One is one of the richest
neighborhoods in the world

8. …where you can pay homage to both Handel and Bono, Joyce or Yates

9. …where you can participate in grand celebrations, or loud
demonstrations

10. Uniquely Diverse
“The most diverse neighborhood in all of Ireland.”

11. A place of profound meaning

12. But disconnected

13. The Pieces w/out the Whole
• Some of the built environment is not worthy of
Dublin One’s identity. It doesn’t connect your
people, it doesn’t leverage your assets.

14. “Jekyll & Hyde”

15. Civic Schizophrenia:
“Jekyll & Hyde”
Positive Perception
• Edgy
• Gritty
• Lingering
• Misperceived
• Underappreciated
• Real
• Potentially Beautiful
Negative Perception
• Dodgy
• Ugly Duckling
• Loitering
• Languishing
• Scary
• Dangerous
• Broken

16. Qualification
The ideas represented tonight are those of the team, based on our observations
of the community, the significant public participation and insights the community
shared with us about Dublin One and your aspirations for it. It represents our best
professional recommendations in the public interest. We do not serve a client in
this endeavor. It is a public service to the Dublin One community.
There are many ideas represented in this report. Together, they form a strategic
vision for actions that could be taken, rather than a prescriptive plan to be
implemented verbatim. Some of the ideas herein are deliberately provocative and
intended to spark new thinking. We expect you to use it as a tool to consider new
interventions, experiments and investments moving forward. This is “community
jazz” – we expect you to riff on these ideas and invent new takes on them to
make it your own. We expect the ideas to evolve and change as you use the
report.

17. Organising Concepts

19. Lighter + Quicker + Cheaper
Chapter One

20. lighter | quicker | cheaper

21. Tipping Points
18 recommendations:
• Streetscapes & Parklets
• Laneways and River Liffey

22. Streetscape & Parklet
Precedents
Amsterdam Fredericia, Denmark
Burlington, US

23. Park-lite interventions
Precedents
Toronto
North Adams, US

24. Henry Street Lingering Space

25. Capel Street

26. Capel Street

27. Capel Street

28. Capel Street

29. Capel Street

30. Capel Street

31. Wolfe Tone Street

32. Wolfe Tone Street

33. Parnell Street AT Jervis Street

34. At Parnell St
Jervis Lane Lower
At Abbey St
At Mary St
Repair Jervis Lane

35. Laneway & River Access
Precedents
Love the Lanes
Crampton Court, Dublin
Vejle, Denmark
Bloom Fringe, DublinCopenhagen parklet

36. Connect to the River
CapelSt
OConnellSt
Ha’Penny
LiffeySt
Ha’Penny
LiffeySt
Millennium
Bridge

37. Connect to the River
Bachelors Way Litton Lane

38. Connect to the River: Harbour Lane

39. Access to River: Liffey Street

40. River Gateway: Grattan Bridge/Capel St.

41. River Gateway: Grattan Bridge/Capel St.

42. Life to the Lanes
Chapter Two

43. Improving Blank Spaces

44. Filling Empty Windows

45. Filling Empty Windows

46. Terminal Vistas

47. Terminal Vistas

48. North Lotts Today

49. Turning Back to Front

50. Street Feast

51. Rear Facade
Improvements

52. Shop Display & Infill
Construction

53. Shops & Green Space

54. Upper Floor
Vacancies

55. Mixed Use Redevelopment

56. Important Places
Along the Way
Chapter Three

70. near-term use

72. long-term use

73. Cross Roads
and
Civic Living Room
Chapter Four

75. INTERSECTION OF
LIFFEY ST. AND
ABBEY ST.
LIFFEY ST. LOOKING
TOWARDS HENRY ST.

76. DESIGN PRECEDENTS

78. HENRY ST. NEAR MOORE ST.

79. HENRY ST. NEAR JERVIS ST.

80. MOUNTJOY SQ.
CENTRAL BANK
ON DAME ST.
GARDEN OF
REMEMBERENCE
GRAND CANAL
DOCK.

81. HEART OF DUBLIN ONE
HENRY STREET
LIFFEYSTREET

83. DESIGN PRECEDENTS

84. PLAZA PLAN

86. Road to Implementation
Chapter Five

87. TomorrowToday

88. Community Assets
• Most diverse neighborhood
• Strong mix of uses (retail,
residential, office)
• Cultural, Education, Health Care
Institution
• Proximity to river, D2, Docklands
• Luas
• Effective BID (Dublin Town)
• Historic character and fabric
• Heart and Soul of the city

89. Challenges / Risks
• Very high upper floor
vacancies
• Shadowy perception
• Insufficient open space (parks,
plazas)
• High concentration of social
services
• Lack of jobs for growing
diverse population
• Shifts in retail preferences

90. Ambitious Aspirations
• Compelling vision for area’s future
• Upgraded public realm (open space, laneways, streetscape)
• Occupy upper floors with housing/office
• Improved perception
• Amenities for families
• Increased public safety and social services

91. Special Places need
Special Treatment
• Aspiration achievement won’t happen by accident
• Development will happen but opportunities missed
• Need coordinated, collaborative approach
• No one entity in Dublin currently
• Need to establish special district revitalization agency

92. ReDO! and road forward
• ReDO! (Reimagine Dublin One)
• Democratically elected board (residents, business,
institutions, service providers)
• Nimble, talented staff
• Public and Private funding
• Five year authorization with annual progress reviews

93. What does ReDO! Do?
• Refine compelling area vision
• Sets action plan to achieve it
• Secure Special District designation
• Advocate/secure funds for public realm improvements
(public, philanthropic, Failte Ireland….)
• Assist property owners in securing upper floor occupancies:
navigating regulatory process, grants and tax incentive

94. But wait, there’s more….
• Use exiting tool kit (Living City Initiative) and explores
additional schemes*
• Promote collaboration among property owners to achieve
community vision via “by right” incentive
• Markets assistance programs

95. Sample Implementation
Initiative
•Occupy the uppers
•Potential big impact:
address housing crisis,
space for office, vitality,
taxes

96. Property Rate Freeze
• Develop quality standards for upper redevelopment
• Provide property rate “freeze” (pro forma based) 5 – 7 years
• Adjust rates after term (one time or graduated)
• Consider: rate reduction for residential and adding bonus
setback floor

97. Economic, Fiscal, Social
Impacts
• Increased private investment in area
• More and better public spaces for people
• Increase upper floor occupancies
• Increased tax revenues (property, personal income,
corporate)
• Hedonics of open space (higher rents/building values)

98. Don’t stop yet….
• Relief from housing shortage
• Space for new and expanding businesses
• Enhanced safety (more eyes on the street)
• Improved perception/image of Dublin One
• Expanded Alternative mode utilization (peds, bikes, mass
transit)
• Increased tourism appeal

99. Dublin One: a Community of
Choice!

100. Schedule and Milestones

101. GET STARTED!
• Public Meeting Today
• Interim Working Group Spring 2017
• ReDO! Group Summer 2017
ReDO! MISSION
• Objectives & Priorities Autumn 2017
• Implementation Strategy Summer 2018
PROJECTS
• SPARK DO! Spring 2017
• Short Term PLAN Summer 2017…… DO! Summer 2018…..
• Medium Term PLAN Summer 2017…… DO! Summer 2020…..
• Long Term PLAN Summer 2017…… DO! ………….?
REVIEW
• Year 1 A.I.A. Review Spring 2018
• Annual Review Spring 2019, 2020, 2021
• Year 5 Strategic Review Spring 2022
ReDO! programme

102. Conclusions

103. Overcoming Inertia
Common Challenges
• Nostalgia
• Conflict
• Institutional Sclerosis
• Apathy
• Negative Past Experience

104. Dublin One is Yours

105. THANK YOU DUBLIN
ONE!
• Report is online at Reimagine Dublin One
website
• Presentation is on Slideshare & Reimagine
Dublin One website
• Questions…