Relics of the Celtic Tiger Days

delta_bravo

For me its the Custom House Quay Shopping Centre. A completely ill-conceived idea with no footfall and selling mostly expensive rubbish. It has about 30 outlets for stores about 25 of which were occupied a few years ago. I took a walk through it a few months ago and it looks like an abandoned train station, theres about 6 stores remaining now and the only place in there I have seen busy is the noodles restaurant.




This to me symbolises the last decade: Plenty of hype, extravagance and at the end of it all a glorious disaster.

What for you is perhaps the symbol of our heyday?

lord lucan

The Spire!:mad:

Sideshow Mark

When I saw the title of your thread CHQ was the first place I thought of. Can't be long left for it now. On the plus side it does have the quietest Starbucks in the city.

mikemac

The noodles place is great and realy is quite successful.
Many companies place massive orders for their staff when working late.
It's packed every lunchtime also.

There are more then six stores open though.
I won't list them all.

For sure though, no footfall and the stores are all selling very expensive and fancy items.
It opened about 5 years too late

dekbhoy

shame for chq , its a fantastic building steeped in history with a preservation order on it due to the way it is structured.It needs a good anchor tennent like topshop or penneys maybe

Dancor

dekbhoy wrote: »

shame for chq , its a fantastic building steeped in history with a preservation order on it due to the way it is structured.It needs a good anchor tennent like topshop or penneys maybe

All the expensive kips were aimed at the up and coming young profesional yuppie types who were buying their shoe box apartments in the area. Like you said, high street shops would do better.

amdublin

Sideshow Mark wrote: »

On the plus side it does have the quietest Starbucks in the city.

Yeah it's great

But I'd imagine they'll finish out their lease and close up

I LOVE that noodle place!!!!!

amdublin

Btw is it actually called the Custom House Quay Shopping Centre?????

Is it not called the Chq Building

mikemac

It's CHQ alright but realy, both are fine

How Strange

I'm guessing they thought it would be similar to the Royal Exchange Building in London where the wealthy bankers and stockbrokers would drop £k's on luxury jewellery for the mrs and the gfs while kitting themselves out in the finest tailored suits.

There used to be some strange shops in there; there was one which sold ladies shoes and under wear. Hugely expensive and it always seemed to have a sale on.

There is a yoga and pilates studio in there now a few days a week.

spurious

It's dead as a doornail that end of town. The extension of the LUAS didn't really bring the sort of clients would be shopping in CHQ.

One chance for bringing increased numbers of punters into the area (transport wise) might be to re-route a few southside originating buses coming to the end of their route over the new bridge and end the exclusive use of Butt and O'Connell Bridges as crossing points.

neris

driven by there loads and never seems to be anyone in the palce or any shops open in it. Wouldnt waste my time going in because im never on foot in that part of town or have a need to go there. Penneys would prob be a good anchor tennant for them so that all the broke bankers and stock brokers can go buy their socks and undies at lunch time and slip in for a starbucks. Be a good laugh louis copeland and penneys under the 1 roof

bonerjams03

Most of Parnell Street gets my vote. It's not that it's particulary garish or horrible, which it can be, it's just so soulless and hollow. The Cineworld/Woolshed building does nothing for me and the horrible exterior of the hotel and shopping centre around the Moore Street entrance. It may not be a relic of the Celtic Tiger in the sense of that shopping centre, but it's ugly functionality of just building things does it for me.

Nolanger

IMAX cinema - good riddance!

apoch632

Nolanger wrote: »

IMAX cinema - good riddance!

Why, they've finally started to release films properly on IMAX now.

silverharp

Temple bar and superpubs , hopefully the majority will be bankrupted over the next few years and something more useful will rise from the ashes:D

oppenheimer1

amdublin wrote: »

Btw is it actually called the Custom House Quay Shopping Centre?????

Is it not called the Chq Building

I believe the original plan for the CHQ building was to house the National Gallery of Modern Art but CJ decided it would be better out in Kilmainham Hospital. Total mistake, the gallery would have been perfect there.

murrayp4

There has never been any proper marketing for the CHQ. I work 5 mins walk away for the last 10 years and only found out it was a shopping mall 3 months ago

happyfriday

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

I believe the original plan for the CHQ building was to house the National Gallery of Modern Art but CJ decided it would be better out in Kilmainham Hospital. Total mistake, the gallery would have been perfect there.

Agree with you there, it would of been perfect for the National Gallery of Modern Art.

cosmic

For me, the biggest waste of money was the Millenium Clock. The bloody thing didn't even work!

Ash.J.Williams

Heading out towards the Naas Road from Inchicore when you reach the traffic lights where the luas heads up the canal, there is a 6-7 story apartment block built on what was about an acre of wasteland....hidious is not the word for this eyesore and it deffo passes as a relic form the Celtic Tiger.
It located beside the lock gate on the right facing away from inchicore, cannot miss it!!

spurious

Ash.J.Williams wrote: »

Heading out towards the Naas Road from Inchicore when you reach the traffic lights where the luas heads up the canal, there is a 6-7 story apartment block built on what was about an acre of wasteland....hidious is not the word for this eyesore and it deffo passes as a relic form the Celtic Tiger.
It located beside the lock gate on the right facing away from inchicore, cannot miss it!!

Are any of the apartments in that thing sold? It doesn't look like it.

mikemac

Is that the building shaped like a triangle? You know what I mean

I think it's still unoccupied.
As you get the Luas to Blackhorse you can see it from quite a distance away.
I've never seen lights or any activity there

Horrible looking building.
Probably will be let or sold off as social housing

Edit, here is a pic

problemchimp

arrogant, finger-clicking cuunts who think they invented money, now driving around in '08 land rovers and no money to pay the road tax. I'm not knocking anyone for making a few bob but, Jesus the arrogance!

silverharp

problemchimp wrote: »

arrogant, finger-clicking cuunts who think they invented money, now driving around in '08 land rovers and no money to pay the road tax. I'm not knocking anyone for making a few bob but, Jesus the arrogance!

he he!, I do smirk when I see an 06-08 Merc 500 / over sized Landrover , the thought crosses my mind, could they buy the same car now?

fontanalis

Is the Gas Works building by the canal fully occupied? What about Soencer Dock; has that taken off?

Sergeant

fontanalis wrote: »

Is the Gas Works building by the canal fully occupied? What about Soencer Dock; has that taken off?

Spencer Dock was fairly fully the last time I was down there. Truly soulless apartments though.

As someone mentioned earlier the truly dreadful superpubs that sprung up are one of the worst legacies of the whole era. Loud, boorish, uncomfortable drinking shops.

See Berlin for how to have a thriving pub and club culture that doesn't require 14 plasma tv screens showing sky sports news on every screen and a selection of 5 mass-produced beers.

phasers

every time I drive through Adamstown I get really depressed, the place is like a ghost town and it's a shame because it's actually quite nice, though completely unnecessary.

delta_bravo

phasers wrote: »

every time I drive through Adamstown I get really depressed, the place is like a ghost town and it's a shame because it's actually quite nice, though completely unnecessary.

One of the few places in Ireland that the infrastructure such as trains and schools was put in place before the people came and it ended up backfiring. I'd say it could be 20 years before it reaches the population they had expected

mikemac

Adamstown was a good project, I hope it's not left to decay and become run down.
A well planned project and it never reached its potential.

Maybe one day

sealgaire

Greatest relic of the celtic tiger days IMHO are Range Rovers. They look sooo tacky now.

Arfan

murrayp4 wrote: »

There has never been any proper marketing for the CHQ. I work 5 mins walk away for the last 10 years and only found out it was a shopping mall 3 months ago

you think that's bad. I only found out about it when I read this thread.

mikemac

Arfan wrote: »

you think that's bad. I only found out about it when I read this thread.

Check out the noodles place, it's the biz :cool:

And that and the Starbucks are the only shops in CHQ that do much business at all.

Ghost-town!