New Edward Square food plaza?

topcat77 · 19-04-2022 3:03pm #1

I see that an application to change the old Miss selfridge unit to a restaurant use has just been filed. I think if this is successful you could see the whole square being a food plaza. get ready for all the big restaurant chains! :-(

https://www.galwaydaily.com/news/approval-sought-to-convert-shuttered-miss-selfridge-to-restaurant-use/

Paddico · 21-04-2022 1:20pm

Yeah like Supermacs :(

Mrs OBumble · 21-04-2022 1:28pm

Would be a good use for the space.

Put a roof over it and call it the Apple Market or suchlike

jimwallace197 · 21-04-2022 1:28pm

Pen Rua · 21-04-2022 4:32pm

Is the alternative (empty units) really that much better?

moonflower · 23-04-2022 8:49am

Would be a great idea if they're allowed to put seats outside, would really fill up that empty space!

topcat77 · 25-04-2022 3:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118957417#Comment_118957417

It's better than empty units. it'd just be a shame to see it full of "TGI fridays, Nando's, Frankie & Bennies and the like. But that's the nature of the beast.

Mrs OBumble · 25-04-2022 4:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118975048#Comment_118975048

It's the perfect place for a clutch if places like that. Send all the hens+stags there.

Leave the more interesting places for historic buildings and nicer groups!

Stevolende · 05-05-2022 9:44am

Trying to think of the history of that space. Has it ever fully flourished, like not had an empty unit or 2?

Was also trying to think when it was created. I think I remember the top of Shop st (or is taht still William St?) having a continuous row of shops at that point .

So was it around prior to 2008 or just being built at the time. I do remember it must have been there by about 2010.

So yeah would be good if you had a decent array of food places there as long as they weren't identikit chains etc.

ben.schlomo · 05-05-2022 12:25pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119018448#Comment_119018448

Edward Square went in approx Nov 1999. Shops opened around then or into 2000. It had full units for many years. Only around the last 3/4 years that businesses started to close and units remained empty with the change in the general retail environment.

New Edward Square food plaza?

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