Dublin Fruit Market
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The fish market is already gone manifesta afaik. The traders have moved out past the M50 to Ballycoolin I think.
@notjim wrote:
Proceeds from the sale of the site will go towards the cost of a new civic square surrounding the fruit and vegetable market, a community facility and an underground car park..
So this civic square: wasn’t the original plan for an outdoor market on the fish market site, which I thought was a fantastic idea, is that the same as a civic square or has the plan changed?
No the old Fish Markets will be developed to enclose a square that will have the Fruit and Veg markets as a centrepiece. The ironwork from the Fish market was salvages to create a new addition on to the southern part of the F&V. The square probably will have some outdoor markets. The images look great and I think can still be found on the DCC website.
have a look at update technologies .ie webpage , go to projects – commercial – smithfield
project by B O Halloran architects for Church stThe doorcases either side of the main entrance seem almost identical to those of the underside of the Loop Line bridge spanning Westland Row. Same architect I wonder?
According to the IT Patrick Guilbaud may be involved in a cookery school in the new scheme and Fallon & Byrne may anchor the development – good news to hear high profile restrauneurs are showing an interest in being involved!
When are we getting this little square? It looks like a very nice proposal but one that I would’ve imagined should be done by now.
Here’s the full text…. The developer was announced yesterday so hopefully things will get moving shortly.
Restaurateur Patrick Guilbaud and the team behind food -emporium and restaurant Fallon & Byrne are understood to be in discussions to be potential tenants for the Victorian Fruit and Vegetable Market in Dublin’s north inner city when it is redeveloped.
The developer chosen by Dublin City Council to transform the wholesale market located between the Four Courts and Capel Street, just to the north of the river Liffey, into a new retail development was announced yesterday, almost three years after the plans to redevelop the market were first published by former city manager, John Fitzgerald.
The Markets Regeneration Consortium is the council’s preferred bidder and hopes to shortly sign contracts. The consortium is 50 per cent owned by Blackrock International Land, the property arm of Fyffes, 25 per cent by car dealer turned developer, Joe Linders and the remaining 25 per cent by developer Paddy Kelly.
It is understood that the fruit and vegetable market will remain as a market hall, with most of the new business devoted to retail and a smaller wholesale offering.
A new culinary school is also planned, which will possibly have involvement from Patrick Guilbaud, while Fallon & Byrne have been identified as possible anchor tenants for the market.
Next door on the old fish market site there will be apartments and an open square, with some office and retail space. An underground car park with about 300 spaces is also planned for the area.
Approximately 34 predominantly wholesale traders selling fruit, vegetables and flowers are currently tenants of the council in the market.
A spokesman for the Dublin Market Traders’ Association, which represents the majority of the traders, said last night that neither the consortium nor the council had made any approach to them in relation to their future in the market.
The majority of traders have been renting pitches from the council for decades, with businesses passed down through some families for more than 100 years.
© 2008 The Irish Times
Its incredible that this project has taken so long to come to fruition (pardon the pun). Even despite this story we are only at preferred tender stage…not tender agreed. There is still further design (and no doubt substantial changes to the original plan), planning, appeals (likely), construction and then no doubt we’ll have a CHQ-like saga of finding tenants.
Zzzzzzz Wake me up when we’re there
Oh we `ll get there all right,just as soon as that 300 underground car park spaces figure can be improved upon……any mention of a non-Luas Public Transport quotient…? :confused: :confused: 😮
Have you seen something other than the framework plan?
Ho Ho! I can see clouds of steam from the ears of various contributors already rising…
whats the opposite of wow ?
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