A company controlled by the waste magnate Eamon Waters has started work to convert the recently purchased former Jacobs headquarters in Dublin 4 into temporary emergency accommodation for international protection applicants. Waters bought the waterfront office block and former home of the engineering giant on Merrion Road last year. It was guided for €19.75 million. The move is a shift in direction for Waters who, up to this point, has largely focused on commercial office space and hotel properties in the capital as he reinvests the multi-hundred million euro proceeds from the 2021 sale of his Beauparc waste empire. The…

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