Shannon Commercial Properties, part of the Shannon Group, has won the Regional Excellence Award at the Property Industry Excellence Awards.
The KPMG Irish Independent awards, which were presented at the Convention Centre Dublin, are in their fourth year and showcase industry excellence.
Over 120 nominations were judged across 11 categories, with Shannon Commercial Properties getting the nod for the Regional Excellence Award from a panel of judges chaired by Professor Brian Norton, President of DIT and also including Kathryn Meghen, CEO of RIAI; Pat Davitt, CEO of IPAV and Sean Lenihan of Engineers Ireland.
The award for Shannon Commercial Properties is in recognition of the transformational effect that the company is having not just on its own property portfolio in the Mid-West since it came into being in 2014 but as a driver of the wider regional economy.
Since 2014, Shannon Commercial Properties has invested €40 million in creating new and upgraded office and advanced manufacturing space in the Shannon Free Zone. The record spend has seen the company construct 200,000 sq ft of new offices and advanced manufacturing units for tenants such as Jaguar Land Rover and GE Sensing and refurbish over 400,000 sq ft of facilities initially constructed in the 1980s. Tenants that have occupied these upgraded facilities include Edwards Lifesciences, Magellan Aviation, STS UJet, Jetpower and others.
Said Ray O’Driscoll, Managing Director of SCP welcomed the news. “We’re thrilled to have been selected for this award. These are the most prestigious awards in the property industry. There is a significant amount of development activity in the regions and the standards are high and the competition strong. We’re are very much dedicated to achieving and maintaining high standards and this is recognition of that.
“We’ve had a very busy few years and what the market is really telling us is that if we develop premium office, commercial and industrial space, they will be snapped up. But the job is only beginning, and we have a long road ahead, full of opportunity that we intend to maximise for Shannon Commercial Properties and Shannon Group but also for the Mid-West region.”