East Point Business Park
East Point Office Park (Irish: Gnó na Rinne Thoir) in the docklands area of Dublin, Ireland is one of the country's largestbusiness parks, being the place of employment for thousands of people. It is situated in the East Wall area.
There are over 50 companies in the park with 6,000 employees.
The park is situated on land reclaimed from Dublin Bay and the River Tolka estuary. The first phase of the park was opened for business around 1996. The site where EastPoint is located was intended to be a location for a new City Airport in Dublin, similar to London City Airport. When this plan ultimately proved impractical, the site was acquired by Earlsfort Centre Developments.
Earlsfort engaged Scott Tallon Walker to design the Park and the buildings and the landscaping was designed by Charles Funke. It became necessary, because of the route of the Dublin Port Tunnel, to construct a new bridge and causeway from Alfie Byrne Road to access the Park.
The success of the initial phase of EastPoint led to Earlsfort and Dublin Port Company entering a joint venture to develop a further phase. This brought the size of the Park to Circa 40 acres (160,000 m2) with Circa 140,000 square meters (1.5 m square feet) of mainly offices in 37 buildings. This also provided a further entrance to the Park from Bond Road thus enhancing access from the South City.
Major companies based in East Point Office Park include among others Yahoo!, Cisco, Google, Oracle, Enterprise Ireland, Deutsche Bank, CITRIX Systems, QuintilesIms, Ergo, FINEOS and UPC.
Enterprise Ireland leased one of the buildings within the park to serve as its new head office, in a move aimed at merging its four Dublin offices together at one central location, from the end of 2007.
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