land beside oldshopping centre in dundalk

house45

Any idea what they plan on doing with it passed it today and people working away ,is it something to do with the new Tesco that is serpossed to be built?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

It's the long awaited temporary Tesco store while they knock the old shopping centre.

Waitsian

Frida Brave Mouthful wrote: »

It's the long awaited temporary Tesco store while they knock the old shopping centre.

The only holdouts other than Tesco are a chemist shop and a butcher. I wonder where they'll relocate...

10green bottles

mod9maple wrote: »

The only holdouts other than Tesco are a chemist shop and a butcher. I wonder where they'll relocate...

Move here maybe ?

http://talkofthetown.ie/2013/06/06/dundalk-estate-agent-plans-major-extension-to-business-premises/

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

10green bottles wrote: »

Move here maybe ?

http://talkofthetown.ie/2013/06/06/dundalk-estate-agent-plans-major-extension-to-business-premises/

That is pure conjecture with no basis in fact.

As the new superstore will have butchers and pharmacy I'd hardly see them trying to compete from across the road. A few shops tried that in Dublin Street over the years with limited success.

Anyway, thread is to answer what the work in the car park is and not the future of shops. Apologies mods.

5.11 Tactical

I was wondering what that was driving by last night

5.11 Tactical

It will be sad to see the old shopping centre go as it was great in its hey day and just let run down, used to have resturants, nightclubs a pub, cinema and loads of great shops and a mini arcade if anyone remembers in golden discs ;-)

5.11 Tactical

http://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/local/tesco-promises-new-store-will-reinvigorate-dundalk-town-1-5003078

petes

Frida Brave Mouthful wrote: »

That is pure conjecture with no basis in fact.

As the new superstore will have butchers and pharmacy I'd hardly see them trying to compete from across the road. A few shops tried that in Dublin Street over the years with limited success.

Anyway, thread is to answer what the work in the car park is and not the future of shops. Apologies mods.

The poster you quoted suggested they might move there. I can't see any reason why planning permission wouldn't go ahead for that. I do agree about the butchers etc. moving. They would have limited enough repeat buyers so a move is not an option. Although saying that the butchers is beside Tesco in the shopping centre and seems to still do okay!

MugMugs

Will that bridge be coming down on hill Street aswell?

Why bother with a temp store anyway? Is the tesco in the long walk not enough to see the town through?

5.11 Tactical

It wont be coming down although it would be nice, there is a house beneath it and the owner has refused for many years to be relocated etc.

But to be honest I dont blame him as afterall it is his home.

10green bottles

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

It will be sad to see the old shopping centre go as it was great in its hey day and just let run down, used to have resturants, nightclubs a pub, cinema and loads of great shops and a mini arcade if anyone remembers in golden discs ;-)

Slipped Disc

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Pa's bar and restaurant and the Ashley Arms. The Casino Mini and Maxi cinemas. We thought we were the bee's knees with such a fine shopping centre. And of course we all eagerly awaited the swimming pool that was to be built behind it!

Nesta99

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

It wont be coming down although it would be nice, there is a house beneath it and the owner has refused for many years to be relocated etc.

But to be honest I dont blame him as afterall it is his home.

The issue of relaocation was resolved. Simply a shelved plan due to money. Will progress in the future, in the meantime it would be nice if the old railway track was tidied up as a walk and cycle way or somthing

not1but4

For anyone who isn't in Dundalk this is what it currently looks like.

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Some drawings of the finished site EDIT: Not what they are currently building.

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You can see more drawings in the planning application by clicking on view scanned files.
http://www.louthcoco.ie/ePlan41/FileRefDetails.aspx?File_number=09163&LASiteID=1

Looks like the Tesco in Maynooth.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Hang on! You have shown the preparation for the temporary store on the unused car park, with the plans for the new store on the site of the current shopping centre.

The discussion is with regard to the site works that are ongoing and they are NOT for the Tesco Extra. Just to be clear.

not1but4

Correct Srameen I was actually trying to find this find this application which had views of the temporary store but couldnt find it last night. Found it today though.
http://www.louthcoco.ie/ePlan41/FileRefDetails.aspx?File_number=1065&LASiteID=1

Anyway the finished view of the Temporary store

MugMugs

So what's the temp store going to be when the full time store is finished? Parking?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

MugMugs wrote: »

So what's the temp store going to be when the full time store is finished? Parking?

I wondered that myself. It would seem a shame to let it revert back to the derelict vacant eyesore it was.

KeithM89

Wheres micky d's going?

kbell

It's still on the plans for the finished Extra store, so going nowhere apparently.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Scylla wrote: »

Wheres micky d's going?

Nowhere it would seem - unfortunately!

MugMugs

Frida Brave Mouthful wrote: »

Nowhere it would seem - unfortunately!

Can't bate a bit of Ronald after a night on the sauce!

5.11 Tactical

MugMugs wrote: »

Can't bate a bit of Ronald after a night on the sauce!

Yeah and after eating that the bum squirts will be extremely bad

Better of with a chipper and a battered sausage

5.11 Tactical

Is there plans for a petrol station as I can see a sign for one in the plans ?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

5.11 Tactical wrote: »

Is there plans for a petrol station as I can see a sign for one in the plans ?

Of course - Tesco fuel!

tayto lover

Where will the cricketers go now to play?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

tayto lover wrote: »

Where will the cricketers go now to play?

Pardon?

nomoreindie

tayto lover wrote: »

Where will the cricketers go now to play?

Dundalk cricket club out in Dromiskin, havent seen them in a long time in that carpark

tayto lover

Frida Brave Mouthful wrote: »

Pardon?

There used to be a bunch of foreign lads playing cricket on Sunday mornings where they are building now.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

tayto lover wrote: »

There used to be a bunch of foreign lads playing cricket on Sunday mornings where they are building now.

On the old rubble strewn gravelly tarmac? I never saw that and I passed it twice a day for over twenty five years! You learn something new every day!

Nesta99

Tis where i learned to drive - wide open space with nothing to hit - within reason. Good to see the space utilised now that the railtrack is gone. If that area behind mourneview was turned into a park or something would be a nice wee place round there in general!

10green bottles

The contracted construction company are slowly but surely taking the old place apart.
The old escalator will be gone by Monday

Meanwhile a load of wino's/druggies have taken residence just outside the temp store building site oppisite Lidl. Another BIG

Nesta99

Maybe it was just a day trip out from under Hill St. bridge! Everyone even winos and druggies need a holiday now and again...

Nesta99

10green bottles wrote: »

The contracted construction company are slowly but surely taking the old place apart.
The old escalator will be gone by Monday

Meanwhile a load of wino's/druggies have taken residence just outside the temp store building site oppisite Lidl. Another BIG

That escalator should be taken and preserved as a monument lol. Modern art type thing as a centre piece in the new store:P

10green bottles

Nesta99 wrote: »

That escalator should be taken and preserved as a monument lol. Modern art type thing as a centre piece in the new store:P

You could be right on this,the lads on the job just didn't cut the oul escalator to pieces but went about the job in a "dignified " way LOL.
I reckon it will appear in a beautiful re incarnation somewere down the line.
I believe the DSC was the first shopping centre in Ireland to have an escalator of this type ?

MugMugs

10green bottles wrote: »

I believe the DSC was the first shopping centre in Ireland to have an escalator of this type ?

It was a "Flagship" so to speak and that was one of the many talking points about her.

Shame to see her fall into ruin in recent years but I suppose onwards and upwards and this can only serve to rejuvenate that general area.

10green bottles

10green bottles wrote: »

I reckon it will appear in a beautiful re incarnation somewere down the line.

Yep, eBay :P

Nesta99

hellboy99 wrote: »

Yep, eBay :P

We shall chip in to buy then!! Dya know it is strange how nostalgic one can get over something as simple. I was always desparate to hit the emergency stop button, in a Father Dougall way lol. I grew up round Parnell Park so spent quite a bit of time hanging around that old place (lived next door to one of the security guards so was never moved on:P). The place used to be heaving, bands playing in the foyer, yellow pack biscuits, the fantastic smell of traynors butchers when the sawdust was allowed on the floors of butchers those days. Jewellers at entrance of Crazy Prices...no tat as of recent. Ye could go on and on as in the afore mentioned cinemas, bars, resteraunts, browsing the books in Carrolls, Payphones with those Huuggeee hoods over them so ye could hear (it really was that busy at times). Ah well enough of that and more of this - another 'first' for this site:

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/news/tesco-plans-for-33m-store-being-finalised-26955633.html

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The escalator is a heap of scrap - I can't see how anybody could be nostalgic about it but to each his own. Maybe it's because I'm much older that I can think of more significant things about the town to lament in their passing.

As for that old news item,the only thing of merit is that the picture shows McDonalds gone.

10green bottles

Nesta99 wrote: »

We shall chip in to buy then!! Dya know it is strange how nostalgic one can get over something as simple. I was always desparate to hit the emergency stop button, in a Father Dougall way lol. I grew up round Parnell Park so spent quite a bit of time hanging around that old place (lived next door to one of the security guards so was never moved on:P). The place used to be heaving, bands playing in the foyer, yellow pack biscuits, the fantastic smell of traynors butchers when the sawdust was allowed on the floors of butchers those days. Jewellers at entrance of Crazy Prices...no tat as of recent. Ye could go on and on as in the afore mentioned cinemas, bars, resteraunts, browsing the books in Carrolls, Payphones with those Huuggeee hoods over them so ye could hear (it really was that busy at times). Ah well enough of that and more of this - another 'first' for this site:

http://www.independent.ie/regionals/argus/news/tesco-plans-for-33m-store-being-finalised-26955633.html

Ahh the famous brothers,good,sound lads.(btw still there)

Bulldog? was the one i remember and also a gent be the name of Connolly? All good fun 'n games

Nesta99

10green bottles wrote: »

Ahh the famous brothers,good,sound lads.(btw still there)

Bulldog? was the one i remember and also a gent be the name of Connolly? All good fun 'n games

Jimmy Renaghan (spelling)

@Srameen Booooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!

Of course its small fry in the context of the town overall but that place was a big part of my youth!:cool:

locum-motion

Nesta99 wrote: »

...Renaghan (spelling)...

Renahan, if I recall correctly. There were about 8,000 or 10,000* various brothers, sisters, cousins etc that worked in the Shopping Centre (and the shops therein) in various capacities.



* Might be slight exaggeration.

tayto lover

locum-motion wrote: »

Renahan, if I recall correctly. There were about 8,000 or 10,000* various brothers, sisters, cousins etc that worked in the Shopping Centre (and the shops therein) in various capacities.



* Might be slight exaggeration.

Jimmy and Tommy are still there but they will leave for good when the new store comes into existence I believe.

locum-motion

tayto lover wrote: »

Jimmy and Tommy are still there ...

Those two and the escalators are going to be installed at the new Dundalk Shopping Centre exhibit in the Louth County Museum!

Nesta99

locum-motion wrote: »

Those two and the escalators are going to be installed at the new Dundalk Shopping Centre exhibit in the Louth County Museum!

Lol ye never know...There are worse things on display there. Old Ivy marshelled them into the place when it was time to go get a job - she was a brilliant character!!

locum-motion

Nesta99 wrote: »

Lol ye never know...There are worse things on display there. Old Ivy marshelled them into the place when it was time to go get a job - she was a brilliant character!!

She had her head screwed on, that one, right enough!

10green bottles

I believe that there was a partial roof collapse in the old centre today in the Tesco grocery supermarket area.
Anyone hear anything??

Just heard the same myself. It was during the thunderstorm I think.

10green bottles

10green bottles wrote: »

I believe that there was a partial roof collapse in the old centre today in the Tesco grocery supermarket area.
Anyone hear anything??

There was indeed, leaks at various points within the Marshes too.

KeithM89

Photos here:
http://talkofthetown.ie/2013/07/24/major-accident-avoided-at-dundalk-shopping-centre-after-roof-caves-in/