Leeson Street – Kiosque is closed
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Just noticed that the Kiosque, on the traffic island near the Canal end of Leeson Street, is now closed down.
It was looking a bit sorry for itself lately, but the newsagents shop gave it a sense of meaning.
(The toilets were also long closed here)And on the subject of bollards
One bollard on St Stephens Green, immediately across from the Shelbourne Hotel door, has been “taken out” , and it lies shattered on the ground, – no doubt hit by a motor vehicle – though doubtless it got its revenge.
One of the trees is also gone in the same area.
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@dc3 wrote:
And on the subject of bollards
One bollard on St Stephens Green, immediately across from the Shelbourne Hotel door, has been “taken out” , and it lies shattered on the ground, – no doubt hit by a motor vehicle – though doubtless it got its revenge.
One of the trees is also gone in the same area.
Gardai were at the scene at midday Sunday – a red car was rammed into the bollard and tree almost head on – I could not work out how it had acheived the neccessary angle. No other vehicle was evident as having been involved….
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@fergus wrote:
wasn’t this sold/bought only a few years ago and was the most expensive property purched/boufght in terms of price per metre sq. in dublin at the time?
Is that true?
If so has it been beaten?
What is if this isn’t/wasn’t?
That was the other Kiosk – the one at the junction down at Jury’s Balls bridge which now is an o’brien’s sandwich franchise
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Other than that it must surely be the 10x12ft return bedroom of a Victorian house in Leeson Park that sold two years ago for around €100,000, and without parking…
There’s another bollard on the Green a bit further up, around the area of the tourist horse people that’s been in a decapitated, that is to say non-existant, state for quite some time. It need to be replaced.
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The kiosk at Jurys came to prominence in 1990 when it sold for a whopping IR90,000 or roughly the price of a three storey house in Ranelagh or Rathgar at that time. Obviously there were two very silly people at that auction, it resold sometime 1999-2000 and did not acheive a ridiculous price 2nd time out, it sold on a yield of about 3.5-4%, which given the hassle free nature of the investment wasn’t too far off.
Re: The bollards, accidents will happen given attitudes to drink driving and I suppose we shouls given our toleration of one expect the other. What really annoys me is the length of time it can often take to clean up the glass from the cars afterwards, especially in locations like Stephens Green where the glass is a hazard to both pedestrians and cyclists.
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Is it going to be a coffee shop. There is a circular copper clad counter at the front.
Across the road is 25-26 Fitzwilliam Place. Work just started on a revamp. I saw a proposal earlier this year to remove the 4th floor and build two new floors including a hideous mansard roof was refused. It looked terrible and entirely out of scale with the rest of poor old Fitzwilliam Place. The developer seems to have come back with an altered scheme to remove and build a new single storey, keeping the existing height. Its under consideration.
Its a pastiche this building isnt it…. not original.
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@Diaspora wrote:
DC3,
The kiosk is closed for renovations which will last about six weeks, the owner got permission to convert it to a cafe/shop and will have tables and chairs outside. I wish him good luck in the venture which will I think be a positive addition to the area.
i quite like that idea too. i haven’t been in that area for years though.
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