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Just saw this in the Limerick leader – Sounds promising!
Limerick city to get new seven screen cinema
Bedford Row: plans for a multi-screen cinema
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08 October 2008
By Anne Sheridan
A SEVEN screen cinema complex could be opened in the city centre in the next two years if Limerick City Council gives its approval.
Developer Michael Daly of Fordmount Developments, has confirmed that he has now bought the remainder of the properties on Bedford Row and wants to open the first cinema in the city for nearly a decade.Under the planned €20million redevelopment of the area, fashion outlets will continue on one side of Bedford Row, with food outlets overhead.
It is hoped the opposite site of the pedestrianised street will comprise of a seven or eight screen cinema complex.
“We expect to have the planning application in before Christmas and have it ready for next September. We really want to create a leisure area to revitalise the city centre. We (Fordmount Developments] have 150 apartments rented out so we need to provide something for people,” said Mr Daly.
The first premise purchased by Fordmount Developments in July was Nevada Smiths pub on the corner of Bedford Row and Henry Street. Other outlets including Cafe on the Row and Figaro have now been acquired.
@Dan Sullivan wrote:
A leisure centre? Sounds more like some Turkish Bath house…
Why? All the descriptions say leisure centre/ gym/ spa!
I agree completely with the two posts above. Looks like another lost opportunity for Limerick is on the cards with that proposal, we can only hope the planners will agree. A new city library in the church building perhaps with the long anticipated arthouse cinema, housed in the adjoining buildings would seem like the most obvious use for the Jesuit complex. With all the recent reports and talk of regeneration of Limerick the city council and developers could put their money where their mouths are and take this opportunity to provide at least one interesting facility to entice people into the centre. Is there even a planner in Limerick with conservation expertise to deal with listed buildings? I don’t think the interior will fair too welI with a swimming pool.
A swimming pool/ gym facility for the city centre would find an ideal location integrated with the River Shannon and could make for a second unique spectacular and practical addition to a regenerated city centre It could be designed to incorporate new public space, perhaps located around the Arthur’s Quay Park/ Dunnes Stores/ Sarsfield House area.
The Dutch bookshop looks stunning, perhaps something for the Fransiscan Church to emulate when it becomes a library for Mary I? I tried to find some info on the ‘designers’ of the Jesuit Church scheme but there doesn’t appear to anything on the net.Information on the appliction has yet to be posted on the City Council site.
I can’t help think of the vandalism that was carried out to one of the Georgian buildings on Glentworth St – not the Chinese restaurant that stuck some kind of a pagoda lookin thing on the front, but across the road where a large green extension was stuck on to the side of one the buildings in the middle of the street – think it’s used as the Youth Services building, sorry for lack of photo’s. It’s dreadful, would probably crack your computer monitors if Iposted it anyways.Saw the same story, but don’t know anything more about it unfortunately. Sounds like an interesting idea, can’t imagine how it could be executed, especially in that location. But fair dues to the man – Limerick City could do with more people like him Maybe the thinking behind it is along these lines –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:FremontStExperience_LasVegas.JPG
CONFERENCE CENTRE COULD BE WORTH MILLIONS
By MIKE DWANETHE Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism has confirmed it is considering the development of a conference centre in the Limerick region that could be worth hundreds of millions annually to the local economy.
A location between the city and Shannon Airport is being mooted for the 2,000-plus capacity venue but the Department is to first undertake a feasibility study on the proposed development over the coming weeks.“At this time, the plan is for the feasibility study to commence in the near future, however, we do not have any further information on it at this time,” was all a Department spokesman was prepared to say this Tuesday.
However, the Limerick Chronicle understands tourism and business interests in the Mid West are to be consulted in the coming weeks about building a centre as a public-private partnership.
John Fahey, chief executive of Meet Limerick Shannon, the public-private body that seeks to attract business delegates to conferences in the Mid West, said a purpose-built facility of the scale suggested would “represent a huge economic boost” for the region.
Killarney has its national event centre and a national conference centre is currently under construction at Spencer Dock in Dublin, while Mr Fahey he was also aware of discussions about building such a facility in Cork. But he is confident a conference centre in the Limerick area would be viable.
“The minimum stay for business conferences would be three days and the average spend about ¤1500 per person so it would represent a huge economic boost for the region. I couldn’t say at this stage whether it would be full every day but it would still be huge for the region while the business is being built up,” he added.
Limerick regeneration plans unveiled
Wednesday, 11 July 2007 12:19
A group of architects in Limerick city has outlined its plan for the regeneration of the city.EML architects claims the city centre is in decay and becoming more and more abandoned by people who are choosing to live and shop in the suburbs.
Limerick is the only city in Ireland, if not Europe, where suburban commercial rents are higher than those in the city centre.
AdvertisementThe managing director of EML architects, Hugh Elliott, says commercial rates in Limerick city centre are too high, and this is pushing retailers to locate in the suburbs.
In addition, 41% of the housing in Limerick city is social housing, compared to just 9% in Galway.
The company outlined its plans at a business breakfast this morning, which was attended by those in the property and investment sector as well as public representatives.
The plans are designed to make Limerick ‘a living 24 hour city’ and a magnet for investment and tourism.
It includes building around the city’s riverside creating a floating concert arena, swiming baths, waterways centre, a pedestrian bridge and good quality open spaces for people to congregate in.
It is also proposed to create a business district and to demolish the Cruises Street area to change it to a mixed use development.
Mr Elliot cites regeneration programmes in cities like Copenhagen, Vancouver and Leeds, which successfully brought people back to live and spend their leisure time in the city centre.
They look particularly hideous – and the prices €370000? That’s over €120,000 for each window. What a shame this got through planning – Henry St. was developing a somewhat respectable character, with a few exceptions, until now.
The article in this weeks Post is great news, Looks like plans for improving the city’s streetscape are a lot more extensive than the pedestrianisation project based around O’Connell St./ Bedford Row etc. I’m not sure if this link I posted a few weeks ago was merely a competition entry or a definate plan, maybe someone else can shed some light?
God love them, the poor pets – having to suffer the inconvenience of the democratic process. This story sounds like a load of rubbish, obviously someone in the post had a few column inches they were desparate to fill. And what kind of advice are these investors getting – when they negnelected to allow for the fact that somebody just might have a slight concern that a whole city block is going to be rebuilt by single developer whose primary aim is to line his own pockets and those of his backers!
Have any repairs been made to Clancy’s Strand since the main drainage scheme was completed? Perhaps the new landscaping will be implemented when the area is cleaned up. The little green that juts out into the river along that stretch is a very pleasent spot on a sunny day. It would be nice to see it extended the entire distance between the bridges.
Here’s a few more links I came across for different projects going on at the moment –
Thanks for posting the image.There’s the full article on the website:
http://www.sfpc.ie/news058.htm
Not sure that the image does the development any favours – it looks like a spanish holiday resort with a big 20 storey handbag lookin yoke throwin for good measure – guess that’s so the building will be easy to carry! I’d have a suspicion that that image is only for presentation purposes and that the final design will look quite different – hopefully anyway.
This is the latest from the Post, might be a planning application in before Christmas! Any chance of scanning a few images PoxyS?
http://www2.limerickpost.ie/fullnews.elive?id=51&category=news
Great posts, republicofcork – I think there are a lot of people who would agree with your overall sentiments on developments in this country, but few who could express themselves as well as you have done here.
Looks to me like a proposal – those images were only put on the website in the last few months and as far as I know the theatre royal has been closed for a few years – the facade certainly wasn’t renovated any time recently. Really can’t shed too much light on the project, but thought someone else might know something about it. It would be great to see a venue like that developed in town – although judging from the section drawings on the link, the space seems very tight. I wonder is there any chance of converting the Jesuits or Franciscan churches into a cinema?
Just found this. Don’t know when it was put on their site, but it might mean that the project has some chance of getting going
http://www.murrayolaoire.com/civic/projects/limerick_cinema/index.html
It would be nice if there were a few images to go along with the news on the bus station – am i right in thinking it’s going to be moved to the frieght yard then, with the main entrances for buses to be located on Roxborough Rd?
I realise what you are saying CologneMike, guess we’ll just have to wait for the full report. I think it’s probably fair to say that most of the population growth in the areas you mentioned would be related to the fact that these areas are effectively suburbs of Limerick, given the large percentage of each figure which was assigned to urban growth in 2002. And have to agree with you on the whole place name issue – bit of an odd way for the CSO to work. A 13,000 increase in numbers would be quite staggering especially seeing as the population for the whole county grew by just 10,000. Are rural areas in the west and south of the county dying out completely? Also in comparison to Galway’s increase of just over 6000 – which has been the fastest growing city in Ireland (and perhaps Europe) for decades, the Limerick figure looks to be a bit excessive. I know in some ways it’s all just a numbers game but it would appear that every other city in Ireland is mimicking the Dublin /Leinster sprawl which has to be a cause for concern for anybody who intends living in this country in the coming decades. Maybe a county council junket to beautiful norhtern New Jersey or Houston might be in order.
@a boyle wrote:
it seems incomprehensible to me that in a period of such economic and population growth shannon and cork have lost people , and dublin has gained so few.
Who would have thought the countryside was where to put the masses ? again ireland trailblazing. No doubt the rest of europe will join us in swapping cities for farms!! just bonkers.
It’s a bit mad alright! :rolleyes:
That means CologneMike, comparing like for like, that the population of the city and suburbs grew from 86,000 to 99,872. It doesn’t seem like there’s much else to go on. I think there was a report in one of the local papers some time ago that the area included in the planned boundary extension would give Limerick a population of about 110,000, but again have no idea where those figures came from.
