page_title: Sandyford
section_title: Sandyford Business District
hierarchical_section_title: Sandyford / Sandyford Business District
caption_attribution_description: English: LUAS stop at Sandyford, Dublin. The Green Line Terminus.
context_page_description: Sandyford is a suburb of Dublin, located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Ireland.
  Sandyford Business District makes up much of the suburb and encompasses Sandyford Industrial Estate. It is the location for a number of multinational financial services and technology companies including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and AIB.
context_section_description: The Sandyford Industrial Estate and surrounding areas is one of the biggest business parks in Ireland, consisting of over 500 companies employing approximately 20,000 people. It was officially opened in June 1967 on a site of 120 acres; 85 acres allocated to light industry and the rest to offices. 
  The area includes several separate business estates and sites, including Sandyford Industrial Estate (also called the Sandyford Business Park), Stillorgan Industrial Estate, Central Park, and South County Business Park.
  A proposal to establish a Sandyford Business District area, to include the core Sandyford Industrial Estate/Business Park as well as the other areas, resulted in the establishment of the Sandyford Business Improvement District Company (SBID) in January 2017. The area has capacity for 17,500 more employees, 350,000 sq m of commercial floor space and 1,000 residential units.
  Microsoft have over 1,000 employees in Sandyford, and there is also a substantial workforce at Vodafone's Irish HQ.
  Other companies in the Industrial Estate include American Airlines, Barclaycard, Canon, Novell, and Vodafone Ireland. The Irish Management Institute also has its headquarters in northern Sandyford. The Irish Mint, a division of the Central Bank of Ireland, which has been in operation since 1976 is located in Sandyford, west of the M50 and north of the village.
  The Beacon Hospital is located in the estate.
caption: Luas at its Sandyford stop.
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