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Patrick st renovations?

  • 16-05-2012 6:27pm
    #1
    djdunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,131 ✭✭✭


    Any one know what's going on at patrick st? There's scaffolding along the majority of the block. Are they just sprucing the place up for a potential tenant or is there something bigger planned for the area?


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  • #2
    dave 27
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    is the opera centre started? i read that the site clearence was to begin around now


  • #3
    TheGimp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭TheGimp


    Probably going to hang a portrait of Richard Lynch.:D


  • #4
    lockman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 550 ✭✭✭lockman


    dave 27 wrote: »
    is the opera centre started? i read that the site clearence was to begin around now

    According to the Leader, work has started on preserving some of the historic buildings.

    http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local/1m-conservation-fund-to-kickstart-limerick-s-opera-centre-1-3841269

    It will be 'years' before proper work starts.


  • #5
    DaveNoCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,765 ✭✭✭DaveNoCheese


    Heard that they are making the buildings safe as they are starting to deteriorate. Likes of removing all the fascia, old business signs and windows.


  • #6
    Itsdacraic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,361 ✭✭✭Itsdacraic


    The glass is being replaced with sheets of plywood :rolleyes:


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  • #7
    MarkR
    Moderators, Regional Midwest Moderators Posts: 11,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭MarkR


    I hope they paint panes of glass and flowers etc on them. That'll fool the tourists. Anyone remember the creepy one that used to be on Thomas Street?

    Boarded up door had a picture of an old lady peeking out of the door. Scared a drunken friend at one stage.:)


  • #8
    europa11
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,730 ✭✭✭europa11


    Itsdacraic wrote: »
    The glass is being replaced with sheets of plywood :rolleyes:


    Great, at least the local graffiti "artists" will have yet another playground to spray their unintelligible names and scrawls on.

    They've done so much of late to enhance the citys appearance it can almost be described as the Athens of the North. The Greek capital seems equally infested judging by recent pictures from there. :rolleyes:

    I suppose bulldozing those rat-infested crumbling edifices on Patrick and Ellen Streets, even to temporarily create an open space (if only to curse the darkness of that area) is beyond the thinkng of our munificent Council.


  • #9
    pigtown
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    Well I'd definately be against bulldozing them. First of all the huge hole in the city would look terrible and secondly it would ruin the character of the area (Arthurs Quay springs to mind). Certainly bulldoze the middle of the site but keep the facade.


  • #10
    highlydebased
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,472 ✭✭✭highlydebased


    I'd love to see how the inside looks after being derelict for so long


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