 By the 1960s, the Grand Canal Docks were almost completely derelict.Around 1987 it was decided that Hanover Quay was too toxic to sell.Regeneration began in 1998, when Bord Gáis sold the Dublin Docklands Development Authority (DDDA) the former gasworks site located in the area between Sir John Rogerson's Quay and Hanover Quay, for €19 million.