coonagh cross - is someone home?

cul-2008

Hi folks,

Just wondering if anyone could shed a bit of light on this. I was out in the 24 hour tesco last night and I notice that all the lights inside the coonagh cross shopping centre were on, including coloured lighting outside the main doors.

Is something actually happening, or did someone hit off a switch by accident?

Pitty to see such a large, relatively well designed shopping centre just lie idle.

munstergirl

Its on the front of todays limerick post
"chieftan construction described their massive development at coonagh cross as a white elephant and blamed its failure on the planning authority's refusal to grant planning extension to phase 2"

I think when coonagh applied for planning permission it was CLARE then the boundry moved and now its limerick city,
Limerick city want city centre filled 1st.

I thought pennys were going to open coonagh + i'm sure it would be lovely for m&s. Tesco out there is a nice to shop as its always quite, no queues.

Don't see anything happening anytime soon. Although if a shopping centre opened there could bring a few hundred jobs.

Itsdacraic

munstergirl wrote: »

Its on the front of todays limerick post
"chieftan construction described their massive development at coonagh cross as a white elephant and blamed its failure on the planning authority's refusal to grant planning extension to phase 2"

I think when coonagh applied for planning permission it was CLARE then the boundry moved and now its limerick city,
Limerick city want city centre filled 1st.

I thought pennys were going to open coonagh + i'm sure it would be lovely for m&s. Tesco out there is a nice to shop as its always quite, no queues.

Don't see anything happening anytime soon. Although if a shopping centre opened there could bring a few hundred jobs.

:rolleyes:

BS. It's their own fault for building yet another suburban retail park in a city full with them. why did they build the 1st phase if they "knew" it wasn't going to viable without a 2nd phase.

They took a gamble, they got burnt, get over it.

AnCapaillMor

Sure look at the place across the road from jetland, most of the units are unused, just woodies petmania and smiths there. what did they expect in coonagh cross.

Kess73

munstergirl wrote: »

Its on the front of todays limerick post
"chieftan construction described their massive development at coonagh cross as a white elephant and blamed its failure on the planning authority's refusal to grant planning extension to phase 2"

I think when coonagh applied for planning permission it was CLARE then the boundry moved and now its limerick city,
Limerick city want city centre filled 1st.

I thought pennys were going to open coonagh + i'm sure it would be lovely for m&s. Tesco out there is a nice to shop as its always quite, no queues.

Don't see anything happening anytime soon. Although if a shopping centre opened there could bring a few hundred jobs.

Chieftan are just blowing hot air trying to point the finger elsewhere.

I had a job offer some time back with a company that had agreed to take one of the units in there. That company and two others were ready to move into units there, but because the brilliant minds behind the centre had not lined up enough tenants for the centre, they decided not to let the companies who had agreed leases to go in either, so it fell through.

I still have the letter I received from where I almost had the job which explained the reasons as to why there would be no unit opening and offering me an alternative role within their company, which I was unable to take as I could not afford to upsticks and move to where they had similar roles in the UK.

Greed built that centre, and greed is behind wanting to build phase two.

If they were allowed to build phase two, then there would just be another set of empty units out there. Lets not forget they went on about how it was going to be this massive state of the art shopping centre to rival the Dublin centres in size. Just a quick look at the amount of land they purchased shows that this was never the plan.


Plus there is the start of an even bigger shopping centre sitting idle for a few years now beside the Parkway Retail park. Another huge eyesore that will probably never get finished. That was also going to bring hundreds of jobs to Limerick according to the media blurbs from the usual suspects. Thanks Liam Carroll, you and your company did a great job on that particular project.

Kess73

AnCapaillMor wrote: »

Sure look at the place across the road from jetland, most of the units are unused, just woodies petmania and smiths there. what did they expect in coonagh cross.

Even look inside the Jetland itself and see all the empty units.

AnCapaillMor

Whats more depressing is the shops that have closed down in there. More probably to follow. would liked to have seen more open\stay open, there really is SFA out that side of the town besides dunnes\tesco\woodies. Wheres the KFC we were promised(probably being built beside the marks and spencers).

And you mention greed, what baffles me is how greed took over from common sense. Its like the hotels, there's no way limerick needed that many hotels and shopping centres.

manna452121

It was Limk County council who approved the shopping centre but when the city council took over they refused a company permission to set-up the ciniema complex but recently passed a petrol station for Tesco.I wonder are the BROWN envelopes still in use?

phill106

munstergirl wrote: »

I think when coonagh applied for planning permission it was CLARE then the boundry moved and now its limerick city,
Limerick city want city centre filled 1st.

Cant see how it would ever have been in clare, boundary was always past where the new roundabout is after coonagh if your coming from limerick.
Well by always, at least last 20 years or so that i can remember.

phill106

Was just there, lights are on again, ooo the fancy colours!