well what about the developments popping up in the shannonside ?

If you’re referring to the Parkway Valley site then no, that photo was taken on November 30th and while there are a few guys on site I don’t think there is any major ongoing work.

@dave123 wrote:

http://www.healypartners.com/pj_gpo.html

Has this scheme started back on the move.

Doubt it, they’ve boarded up the entrances and taken down the hoarding giving the footpath and a lane of traffic back to Henry Street, having done that i can’t see them doing anything with it for the foreseeable future.

Dave i agree with you 100%, i work across the road from it and have to look at it every day. it’s a bloody eyesore.

I saw this application – it was posted just before Christmas – if my memory is right this was previously refused ?.. I thought the thinking was no more cinemas outside of the city centre and now we have a possible 3 .. Coonagh , Jetland and Ballysimon… hope Hollywood ups the outout for the increased demand.

January 2010
By Nick Rabbitts
DEVELOPERS are planning to build a seven-screen, 1,300-seat cinema on the city’s northside.

MZM Holdings has lodged an application with the city planning authority to change the use of three units in the Ennis Road retail park to one single unit.

The project – if it gets the go-ahead from Limerick City Council – would see a seven-screen cinema, consisting of 1,338 seats built on the Ennis Road retail park, near to the Jetland Shopping Centre.

If the plans get the green light, it will represent the second cinema to be granted permission on the northside, following an application by Chieftain Construction to build at Coonagh Cross.

Full story: See our Wednesday edition

According to the application lodged by developers MZM Holdings, the proposals also include a children’s party area and a computer entertainment facility.
The developers have described the proposals to construct a cinema as something which will “diversify” the mix which already exists on the northside of the city.
The development, they say, “will provide an active recreational use for the area. The provision of a cinema would provide a significant amenity facility for the residents and employees of the Ennis Road area and would significantly enhance the attractiveness of the retail park as an employment mode.”
Mayor Kevin Kiely, also a northside councillor, said he would rather see a cinema at Coonagh Cross. But he would welcome “this alternative location”.
“It will provide local facilities for that area. I have been talking to planners, and they are anxious that at least one cinema complex goes ahead,” he stated.
Labour councillor Tom Shortt said the lack of a cinema on the northside was one of the major issues he came across on his election campaign.
“Strangely you would think the calls would come from young people, but there were also calls from older people. I am not surprised that somebody has identified there is a market there which I genuinely think there is a huge demand for.
To go to a cinema, people (from the northside] have to essentially cross the city. The major inconvenience here is for parents. One of the biggest sectors who use cinemas are young people, and this is a transport problem. Parents are dropping their kids across the city, and no sooner have they got home, it is time to collect them again,” he said.
Ger O’Rourke of Chieftain Construction last week told the Limerick Leader he believes his proposed cinema at Coonagh Cross will be ready to open by the end of this year or early next year.
As the Limerick Leader went to press, no spokesperson for MZM Holdings was available for comment.

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hmmmmmmm I wonder now…
http://www.limerickpost.ie/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3607:parkway-valley-sc-set-to-proceed&catid=37:local-news&Itemid=60

Parkway Valley SC set to proceed
by John O’Shaughnessy
Wednesday, 07 September 2011 15:35
INDIAN-born investor Suneil Sharma, who put the ill-fated Opera Centre package together, has now diverted his attention to the abandoned Parkway Valley Shopping centre, having completed negotiations with National Irish Bank to purchase the site. It has also emerged that Mr Sharma parted with €30 million in acquiring the adjoining retail park, a major success since it opened about eight years ago.

According to an Irish Times report, NIB, owned by Danske, the Danish banking group, had exposure of €100 million on the 15-acre site.

The retail park, home to TK Maxx, Currys, Homebase and PC World, and others, produces annual income of around €3million.
Shortly after he assembled the site for the Opera Centre, he sold on his interests to a Dublin-based consortium, headed by developer Gerry O’Reilly.
In fact, the Belfast-based Mr Sharma has developed a ‘love’ affair with Limerick in that the Childers Road Retail Park, where the site was purchased from City Council, was also his brainchild.
He later sold to a Dublin based property group.
The Parkway Valley project was abandoned in 2008 when the Zoe Group, owned by developer Liam Carroll, went into liquidation.
According to reports, Mr Sharma will control 100 per cent of the equity, with the development expected to cost around €60m to complete.
A few hurdles will have to be overcome before work can proceed on the Dublin Road site; the County Council, for example, will have to grant an extension of the planning permission as the original consent has run out.
Also, city centre traders are unlikely to take too kindly to any development there.
Patrick Street businessman Tony Connolly, recently told the Limerick Post that full concentration should be on developing the Opera Centre rather than the Parkway Valley, helping to bring life back into the city centre.
It is suggested that the owners of the Crescent SC, which has one of the highest footfalls in the country, are monitoring developments at the Parkway Valley project with a view to a possible involvement.
They had lined up Marks & Spencer for the Crescent two years ago, as exclusively reported in the Limerick Post, and were disappointed when planning permission for an extension was refused.
The original plan for the Parkway Valley was for almost 40,000 sq m to accommodate 50 shop units, three anchor tenants and 1,650 parking spaces.

That m&s project seems optimistic more than anything but such a development is sorely needed:(