South Great George’s Street

Hey look what appeared on the street in recent days

Makes me want an Ice cream! Or get my hair cut….

Or maybe a pint

I see Starbucks have applied for planning permission to open in one of the recently renovated buildings near the Long Hall pub. They are really starting to pop up everywhere. Another planning app has gone in for a Starbucks at Glasshaus centre in Tallaght and ones have recently opened on Dawson Street and the CHQ in IFSC.

Planning Apps.

Posted: 12/01/2008 DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL We Silverwood Developments Limited, intend to apply for planning permission to amalgamate and change the use of an existing ground floor retail unit, No. 47 South Great Georges Street, Dublin 2 and first floor office space No.47 to No.49 (incl) South Great Georges Street all protected structures to form a new Starbucks coffee unit with seating area & customer toilets. Works also to include the provision of 3 No. illuminated internal advertisement signs of various sizes and designs,, together with 1 No. illuminated external sign to be mounted on existing shop front, at No.47 South Great George’s Street, Dublin 2. The planning application may be inspected, or purchased at a fee not exceeding the reasonable cost of making a copy, at the offices of Dublin City Council during its public opening hours and a submission or observation in relation to the application may be made to the Authority in writing on payment of the prescribed fee within the period of 5 weeks beginning on the date of receipt by the Authority of the application

Starbucks have suffered from their late arrival in the market here as most of the prime pitches have been snapped up by other chains and they are left with slim pickings. Its really noticeable when you compare to London where they are everywhere!

I see there’s a clean up job taking place on the South City Markets as well. Are there apartments on the upper levels. I’d love to have a look.

Any progress on the Drury Street plans to link Grafton St with SGG St. In fact surely a whole framework plan and design statement is required for this quarter.

Wasnt that the proposals for the redevelopment of Castle House or whatever that monolithic monstrisity is called? Dealt with further back at the start of this thread I think.

@Devin wrote:

Actually all 3 city-centre Starbucks so far seem to have been opened with Trinity College south-Dublin knobheads in mind

Jeesh, bit of a chip on our shoulder have we?

Starbucks the acme of fashion? What have I missed?
Any city that can’t maintain a gold-plated brand of cafe like Bewley’s in a time when coffee shops are flourishing everywhere deserves Starbucks (their dark chocolate bars are good!).

Is there any chance that this one will attract a wider cross-section of the city community, because the College Green one has been full of knobs since it opened 2 & a bit years ago?

If there is a knob skew in their customer demographic, I assume it’s due to the fact that their coffee is muck and I’d imagine that knobs have little taste or appreciation for decent coffee.

Before you draw any conclusions though you should establish whether its exclusively the “knob factor” or whether it’s just the fact that you’ve reached an age where being in the proximity of teenagers socialising brings you out in a rash.

jdivision: yeah, that was my view as well; the food was never up to much and when the sticky buns went unsticky and unspicy the writing was on the wall. What a loss though! Maybe CB will realise in a few years that they made a mistake and have a change of heart (again).
As for the ‘it’ thing – cafes are for drinking coffee, talking and reading (and maybe the odd live performance); hysterical teenagers and screaming weans can go elsewhere. By the way, mine’s a small americano with some hot milk on the side.