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@johnglas wrote:
I think we’re now in the position of hoping the bldg may be partly hidden! I’m sure you’ll agree that is unsatisfactory for anything claiming any kind of architectural integrity. .
No, you and I have entirely different opinions on architecture and building quality based on your previous posts. Not starting an argument, but I disagree with a lot of things you’ve said previously
Maybe I’m being ambitious but I think that the trees will screen parts of it and that from certain angles it will reflect the building on Mercer street in the glass rather than the shopping centre. I was actually in favour of the original proposal which was higher
I disagree, in visual terms I think it’ll be a nice visual link between The Gaiety and Mercer STreet beyond.
Bewley’s suffered because of its food offering. It didn’t change with consumer tastes, the same thing as happened the Kylemore Group whose restaurant presence has shrunk significantly.
kite, I believe the case centres more on the sale of the building between the parties. It would be an additional access point rather than the main one.
They are opening a full size store in The Opera House.
From The Sunday Business Post:
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2008/02/24/story30619.aspMarks & Spencer is also understood to have decided to open a larger shop than originally proposed in The Opera Centre in Limerick.
The firm is to open a department store of nearly 8,400 square metres, far larger than the Simply Food store it originally intended to open. The letting is a coup for Jerry O’Reilly, Terry Sweeney and David Courtney, who bought the site for the shopping centre last year. When complete it will have 40,000 square metres of shopping space over two main levels with smaller floors elsewhere.
The openings are part of M&S plans to increase its presence in Ireland by 30 to 40 per cent over the next five years.
It was confirmed last week that the firm would open in the Deerpark shopping centre in Killarney, Co Kerry. It will trade from a unit of 2,000 square metres there, alongside other tenants include New Look, Dorothy Perkins, Evans, Argos and Homebase.
Boots is also to open in the centre, trading from a 556 square metre unit. DTZ Sherry FitzGerald is letting the two remaining units.
@Cathal Dunne wrote:
@AndrewP wrote:
It might, that’d make sense. It’s now 25 days and 18 hours before these babes go to market. What to Archiseekers think will be the response/?They’ve probably already cut the prices they were going to sell them at. Are they going to sell them all in one go? It’ll be an interesting test of the strength of the property market. Perhaps they’ll sell out on their launch weekend and herald the return of the boom!
In Dublin there’s at least on case of a developer “buying” some of the apartments his company developed. Same might happen there
jimg. your comment was way out of line. Information dissemination is something this forum needs in order to contribute and encourage valid criticism. Until such stuff is posted comment cannot be passed. Darkman put it in quotation marks for a reason ie, to show it wasn’t coming from him.
darkman, to me no need to apologise. I think johnglas’s commen is not warranted. Others may disagree obviously but as far as I’m concerned you did what 95 per cent of posters would do when they’re not involvedblah? It reminds me of those redbrick apartment buildings in Milltown, Dundrum etc where apartments take forever to sell because they’re so old. This is not retro cool, it’s Carroll’s Smithfield Lofts scheme gone wrong.
I think this is the Naughton Institute. Word is it’s falling in. Or at least some of the glass is. Traffic chaos and Pearse St closed off.
cgcsb, the suggestion is that the Metro got it wrong and inaccurately labelled it the U2 tower when in fact it’s a tower in Dubai. A suggestion that seems reasonably clear from comparing the images.
@StephenC wrote:
Such a huge and important site….its amazing that DCC havent drawn up some guidelines for its development, or made an Action Area Plan or prepared an urban design framework and asked for some public feedback on wwhat should go here. Disgraceful!
I think you need to read some of the background to what’s happened on the site. DCC management’s entire actions here have been disgraceful.
@TLM wrote:
Would these works affect the Dublin Bus building on the street?
O’reilly’s been trying to buy it, not sure if he has or not.
@shweeney wrote:
theres been some noise on the Metro letters page this week about the impact of this development on the GPO.
Am I right in saying that its only a small section of the GPO that is involved here, and it not a publicly accessible area anyway?
It’s the GPO arcade not the GPO.
The GPO is planning its own retail centre which will open the building to the public and which I think is great. Richard Nesbitt suggested they demolish the crap (later addition) in the middle and turn it into a public square within the building – it could be the Smithsonian of Dublin in his own words. The building could also open onto the redeveloped Princes St
@cgcsb wrote:
Would I be correct in saying that the new devlopement will take up the carlton the vacant site and the old countyu council offices?
Plus the Royal Dublin Hotel, plus the buildings on Moore St to rear as far north as Conways pub. At the other end it’ll include Permanent tsb on henry st amongst others it’s a million square foot development don’t forget – just under 25 per cent larger than Dundrum Town Centre phase one afaik. There’ll probably be good links to the Ilac too – O’Reilly owns 50 per cent of it. The plan originally was for a glazed street there between them. DCC has said it’ll move stallholders in its agreement with O’Reilly but is officially denying that’s policy
