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If they are, then blame the DDDA. They’re the ones they issued as being shortlisted.

@GrahamH wrote:

25/9/2007

The bleak corridor that is now Cole’s Lane: the blank facade of Debenhams to one side, the ugly elevation of Dunnes to the other, and the pathetic two-storey termination of the ‘refurbished’ Ilac at the end.

There’s a planning permission in to fill in Debenhams to the rear and I suspect Joe will bring this level up too.

A new northside v southside debate begins:)

McWilliams is very experienced in financial world, Hobbs less successful. From McWilliam’s own website:
He was educated at Trinity College Dublin and the College of Europe Bruges, Belgium and before moving into writing and broadcasting he spent ten years in banking. First as an economist with the Irish Central Bank, where he helped draft the Irish Submission to the Maastricht Treaty and advised the authorities during the 1992-93 exchange rate crisis.

He then moved to investment banking with UBS – European’s largest bank – where he was appointed the youngest Director ever at the age of 27. He was the first economist to predict the 1990s boom in Ireland which later became known as the “Celtic Tiger” in a 1994 in-depth report on Ireland, its economy and its prospects. He traveled extensively in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, devising bank strategy in both regions

He moved from UBS to BNP where he was Head of Emerging Markets Research.
During his time there, the Emerging markets team was the most profitable unit of the Banque Nationale de Paris world-wide.

As for having nothing to moan about in this country, I take it you’re being sarcastic.

Does anybody know who’s on the assessment committee?

I think the bar’s name was Saddlers. Currently being redeveloped into offices for a financial institution.

I think there was an image of the winning design. I’m pretty sure I saw it.

@who_me wrote:

did I read somewhere Paul St. is being redeveloped too?)

OCP do plan to look at doing that after Academy St and Half Moon. Was in the Business Post.

There are some other dept stores that may look at Cork eventually, John Lewis being the obvious one if and when it eventually opens in Dublin but House of Fraser might look to do something too. Academy St to the best of my knowledge won’t have a single large dept store anyway, focusing instead on relatively large boxes for multiple fashion stores.

Jungle, the internal layout will be the key to whether the upstairs of the scheme will appeal to retailers. If you’ve double height ground floor units with clear access via the middle and outer areas of the centre to the upper floors it’ll be popular enough.

From what I understand people are selling because two separate groups and possibly a third are landbanking so they’re seeing what sort of offers they can get.

It’s a bit of a silly story in truth. Instead of the new street that has planning permisison there’ll be a square. Anyway the councillors seem set on overturning the deal with O’Reilly as soon as the CPO is completed.