gaiety centre
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The planners don’t give a dam, I think we’ve established that, it’s the architect who should have known better.
The way I understand fashion retailing, it’s all about creating an artificial environment where the true value of things is no longer dicernable; a coat, for example that may have €10 worth of material in it and €15 worth of Taiwanese labour, is hung on rail for €200, or a shirt, that was never €50, is 50% off at €25! Places where a person’s very appearance is manipulated by soft lighting and dodgy mirrors to look younger/taller/thinner than they actually are. A place wher plastic payment can be deferred, at a hefty interest rate, to some time in the future.
These are the last places where they’re going to want windows letting reality in!
The location of this building jutting out into the street is a disgrace – it has ruined the vista of Mercer’s Hospital up King Street from the Stephen’s Green end. How no-one in the City Council stopped this happening in such a prime city centre location baffles me.
Anyone else see this in yesterday’s times
Shopping centre planned for Dawson Street
GARRETT KELLEHER, the businessman behind the Chicago Spire, is hoping to replicate the success of the recently opened Gaiety Centre on South King Street by developing a similar shopping mall in the former Royal Sun and Alliance building on Dawson Street.It is understood that Shelbourne Development, Kelleher’s property firm, has commissioned a team of architects for the project and is considering submitting a planning application within the next six months.
The company has already received the green light from the local authority to convert part of the ground floor office space into a 186sq m (2,000sq ft) café, which has been let to Costa Coffee on a short-term lease, and industry experts claim this new retail outlet will strengthen Shelbourne’s case for a redevelopment of the site.
However it is expected that Dublin City Council will support a South King Street-style scheme at the former Royal Sun and Alliance building not only because it is keen to broaden the capital’s retail appeal and reverse the consumer exodus to suburban shopping malls, but also because the site is one of the few in the Grafton Street area able to accommodate the larger-scale floorplates demanded by international fashion multiples.
@Rory W wrote:
hoping to replicate the success of the recently opened Gaiety Centre on South King Street
‘success’? The paint’s barely dry. Is it deemed successful because it hasn’t fallen down yet? We really are clutching at straws.
@Paul Clerkin wrote:
success = successfully let
Hmmm… Looks as if there’s a fair bit to let there yet…
In a similar vein has anyone seen the new Tommy Hilfiger store on Grafton St? They’ve blocked out the upper storey opes with some kind of silver boarding – looks absolutely terrible and I’m only hoping its some kind of temporary measure but somehow I doubt it.
@hutton wrote:
Hmmm… Looks as if there’s a fair bit to let there yet…
All the retail is let, the offices aren’t and could be a hard sell in current market
@jdivision wrote:
All the retail is let, the offices aren’t and could be a hard sell in current market
Agreed. There’s plenty going a-begging right now 🙁
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