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The end of College Street

  • 06-06-2018 10:09am
    #1
    imacman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭


    So yesterdays announcement for the new building on the main campus also confirmed that WIT is pulling out of College street.So after 25 years Humanities is going back to Cork Road.
    https://www.wit.ie/news/all_news/new-engineering-computing-general-teaching-building-announced-for-wit
    Bringing 1500 extra students and 150+ extra staff to the main campus raises a number of questions about capacity for parking ,food and other services.Interesting times ahead


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  • #2
    invara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭invara


    For me, the move out of college st is a very sad development. Were we/WIT to have the money the things you could do with such a beautiful building... any university would treasure having such raw material. So rather than adding capacity to WIT and supporting expanded higher ed services in the SE... it appears the footprint of WIT is going to shrink. Were WIT to get the support to expand, College St is the best-placed building to absorb instant growth. Look at the pressure that Maynooth has been under in the past decade as it has grown from 4-5k student towards 14k.

    Its disposal shows the blood price the Government is charging to get the new PPP building away (which WIT will have to pay for from existing resources). Rather than selling out, we should be holding on to College St and buying the Waterford Crystal site. Can you imagine a UCC or a NUIG selling up?


  • #3
    imacman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 694 ✭✭✭imacman


    Agreed , College street could have been a great asset to WIT but it never get the funding and development to make it really work as a modern campus. Its hard to see how one new building on the main campus will make up for this loss.


  • #4
    taytobreath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,794 ✭✭✭taytobreath


    It was a great setting for the grad ceremonies too.


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