lukejr

I really would have preferred a private investor to come develop the Opera site. Instead we have tax payers money being used to buy the site from NAMA, and a plan being developed over the coming months after the purchase. Do Limerick City Council have the money to do anything with the site?

I think we would have been better to offer the site and a €12.5m grant for any international retail/mall developer to come in and build the Opera centre. It would have brought external money into Limerick during development and greatly improved the retail offering of the city centre.

Will wait and see the plan for the site, hopefully it’ll work out, but really, the plan should have been in place before the tax payer paid for the site.