New Shopping Complex?

Sully

Hey,

Is it a new Shopping Complex being built accross from the Sinn Fein office? Or what? Are the plans/details online?

- Sully

merlante

Yeah, shopping complex & cinema.

Sully

merlante wrote:

Yeah, shopping complex & cinema.

When is it expected to be completed? Any plans available?

- Sully

merlante

Sully04 wrote:

When is it expected to be completed? Any plans available?

- Sully

Not sure, but at the rate it's going at the moment, I'd say it'll be finished by the autumn, if not sooner.

Sully

merlante wrote:

Not sure, but at the rate it's going at the moment, I'd say it'll be finished by the autumn, if not sooner.

OK Cheers. Seems rather small-ish? Any idea what shops are going in there nah?

- Sully

merlante

Sully04 wrote:

OK Cheers. Seems rather small-ish? Any idea what shops are going in there nah?

- Sully

No idea, but surely to god it's time for a Waterstones, HMV, Mark's & Sparks, etc.

AdMMM

I remember seeing plans for it in of all things, the Waterford Today for some reason or another.

I know that there are apartments going in there, however im sure if there are to be as part of a seperate complex.

The structure that looks to be the cinema is taking shape now, they have made a lot of progress in the last 2 weeks and now it seems they an elevator shaft and staircase put in

spartacus93

merlante wrote:

No idea, but surely to god it's time for a Waterstones, HMV, Mark's & Sparks, etc.

Yeah apparently we're finally gettin' a HMV. Well dats what it said in the paper anyways.

Mossy Monk

spartacus93 wrote:

Yeah apparently we're finally gettin' a HMV

nothing to get excited about tbh

another ripoff merchant

merlante

Yeah, but you can't exactly start talking about variety, competition, alternative music shops, etc. when you don't have a standard large music store like HMV. HMV is the sort of popular store that every place has to have... Occasionally have good deals too.

kano476

and its not cramped like the rest of the music shops in waterford theyre all tiny.

Sully

kano476 wrote:

and its not cramped like the rest of the music shops in waterford theyre all tiny.

Agreed.

More stuff, more competition and I think HMV rules.

- Sully

Mossy Monk

thats' true, why are the music shops in waterford so small. it's crazy. golden discs is almost as small as my bathroom ffs

AdMMM

You can't exactly call HMV rip off merchants, especially considering the music shops in Waterford are grossly overcharging as it is! Everytime I've shopped in HMV, the CD's I've bought are always cheaper than in Waterford.

Also the special offers they run regularly are untouchable like their Buy 1 get 1 free DVD offers where the DVDs are often pretty decent!

Jammyd

Im from Galway City and we got our first HMV superstore in september and to be honust it hasn't created any competition whatsoever in the city, our local chain of zhivago's is cheaper still and so is Golden discs. now were gettin A Virgin Megastore hopefully that will shake things up a bit.

Mossy Monk

Virgin Megastores i find to be better than HMV
can we get one of those too

merlante

Virgin is typically more expensive than HMV but is more likely to have alternative stuff.

The main problem with Waterford is that there are no large units for these shops to move into, outside of shopping centres. If I had my way I'd knock down every building from Michael St. to john roberts square and put 4 storey buildings all the way along, instead of the motley string of rotting oul shacks that are there.

Mossy Monk

good plan, when do we lobby the council

merlante

First things first, we have to take out the serial objectors: make an example of them!