The new Eden Project Foyle hopes to bring around 400,000 visitors and £62 million into the local area each year through its latest regeneration attraction.
It wants to regenerate the Boom Hall and Brook Hall Estates for a 21st century audience creating an iconic site that will straddle the Derry and Donegal border at a point where the Causeway Coastal Route meets the Wild Atlantic Way.
Eden Project Foyle is being delivered by the local Foyle River Gardens Charity in partnership with the team behind the landmark Eden Project in Cornwall and is one of the key projects in Eden’s plans to expand globally.
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The completed Eden Project Foyle will be eight times bigger than the iconic Eden Project in Cornwall.
The plan is for a year-round destination that combines indoor and outdoor experiences, connecting people with the significant natural and heritage environment of these historical sites while also enhancing community cohesion and wellbeing.
The project will open up access to a 225 acres garden that will unlock the landscape along the River Foyle for 400,000 visitors each year, exploiting a connection to more than 400 years of the city of Derry’s history and heritage, and generating £62 million each year for the local economy.
One of the key objectives of the project is to create an open and freely accessible riverfront with the potential to link to the greenway network.
Eden is a successful international brand which will not only attract visitors to the area but will create significant job opportunities directly and indirectly in our local supply chains.
The project will inject a much-needed boost in the confidence of key sectors which have been adversely impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Securing game changing projects such as this, alongside progressing the City’s Growth Deal plans, are key elements of North West’s tourism and hospitality sector recovery.
A community-led landscape regeneration project, Eden Project Foyle will open access to an exceptional unspoilt heritage landscape for the benefit of the citizens of the North West of Ireland and national and international tourists alike.
The project ambition is to put the River Foyle at the heart of the region’s future, a gateway to a new landscape on its banks and place Eden Project Foyle, the City of Derry and the North West of Ireland within a global context for tourism and learning.
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