Plans to demolish the SFX Centre on Dublin's northside to make way for an apartment complex have been unveiled.
The owner of the complex, music promoter MCD, is seeking permission to knock the venue located at 21 to 25 Sherrard Street Upper in Dublin 1 - near to Mountjoy Square - and build a five-storey building, comprising 41 one, two and three-bedroom apartments.
The 700-seat SFX venue was originally built back in 1957, although there has been a theatre on the same site since the middle of the 19th century.
The building has been a theatre, studio and rehearsal space for Michael Scott's City Theatre Dublin company, which is currently touring with Sisters by Declan Hassett and This Lime Tree Bower by Conor MacPherson, since 1999.
The City Theatre Dublin company now plans to seek alternative office space.
Denis Desmond's MCD is the country's largest music promotions company.
It also owns all or part of the Ambassador, Gaiety, Olympia, and HQ venues in Dublin.
Desmond has just received planning permission to build a six-storey mixed-use development at the back of the Olympia Theatre, on Sycamore street, Dublin 2, a protected structure. The scheme will comprise office space and residential units.
