Drury Street

jimmii

Has anyone ever traded on Drury St? Thinking of taking a unit there. How would footfall compare to South William St do you think?

YellowSheep

Hi Jimmii
what type?
Oliver

jimmii

YellowSheep wrote: »

Hi Jimmii
what type?
Oliver

General Retail.

YellowSheep

There is a unit for lease. I had a sausage place in Georges Street Arcade. I loved the area. Especially Dury Street.

jimmii

YellowSheep wrote: »

There is a unit for lease. I had a sausage place in Georges Street Arcade. I loved the area. Especially Dury Street.

Cheers. Contacted the agent earlier butbas always with them you have to go chasing!!

Cianos

I'd say footfall would be less than half of what's on South William Street. Not to say it isn't busy, but South William Street is always buzzing. I'd say most traffic down South William Street is going to/from Wicklow Street and the opposite end rather than turning towards Drury St, and a good chunk of those that do probably go straight through the arcade.

jimmii

Cianos wrote: »

I'd say footfall would be less than half of what's on South William Street. Not to say it isn't busy, but South William Street is always buzzing. I'd say most traffic down South William Street is going to/from Wicklow Street and the opposite end rather than turning towards Drury St, and a good chunk of those that do probably go straight through the arcade.

Hmmm that's not great. Looking at the bid south William st numbers they aren't great shame they don't have the data for every street! Hard to get a unit on sgw st for good reason I guess!!

pedronomix

That whole area has a very mixed bag of punters, some are shoppers, many are cafe/bar/hangout flies. I would not attempt to rely on footfall numbers but rather would "count shopping bags" by spending time there during YOUR trading hours. I would seek to profile them on the socio-economic demographic of your type of customer.

jimmii

We current trade out of capel st and have a lot of people say its a shame we aren't on the other side of town so there is already a customer base to work from and we have pretty good product exclusivity so we do have quite a few people who come specifically for us and its now time to grow a bit more so Dublin 2 would be ideal. The amount of times I hear its a shame you aren't on Grafton St or Henry St people seem to think its easy to open up there lol! Maybe one day!

antoinolachtnai

I would look hard at the shopping centres too. It might open up a whole new audience, instead of splitting the audience you already have. Expensive? For sure, but there's no cheap way when you're doing quality retail.

jimmii

There are reasons we can't take the centre route unfortuanately definitely worth the extra you get what you pay for at the end of the day!

endacl

jimmii wrote: »

There are reasons we can't take the centre route

Naughty shop?

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