New trends start to put their visual stamp on Dublin

A new city landscape is starting to emerge with the latest wave of retail development

Brian Moran of Hines is pictured with a model of the new Central Plaza

While it delivered a solid performance in 2017, the surprise in the commercial property market this year was less to do with the trends that the data show on paper, and more to do with the visual impact of how these trends are emerging in reality.

Dublin is being transformed with the completion of new office buildings and the start of a wave of retail redevelopment. It is the emergence of this new ...