SimonMaher wrote: » Planning permission granted for Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre revamp. Good to see:http://www.irishtimes.com/business/commercial-property/d%C3%BAn-laoghaire-shopping-centre-revamp-gets-the-go-ahead-1.2717858
caviardreams wrote: » Really hope they manage to get 2 good anchors - think TK Maxx would do well there.
ted1 wrote: » There's one in carrickmines so I don't think it would draw many people assay from retail park with plenty of free parking
murpho999 wrote: » I have heard rumours they are taking two floors, anyone else hear this?
RosieJoe wrote: » Until they sort out parking and the cost of it, Dun Laoghaire will never prosper. Why would you go there and pay over €2 an hour when you can go to other places like Carrickmines, that is free, or Dundrum, that is €2 for the first 3 hours? I know poeple who would drive a bit further so that they could shop in peace with out worrying about the parking cost. Yes it may cost more in time and petrol to go elsewhere but they still would.
2RockMountain wrote: » Of course, parking isn't really free in Carrickmines - just free to the driver. All the costs of providing the parking spaces and markings and security are built in to the rents that the businesses are paying, and therefore built into the prices that the end-customer is paying.https://urbanful.org/2014/07/07/free-parking/
ted1 wrote: » But yet stores where they have free parking charge the same in their branches that don't have beer parking.
nuttyboy79 wrote: » But the whole point is for me as a driver if I go to Dun Laoghaire and for example park in Bloomfields have a wander around buy nothing and leave I get to pay 2.40 for parking. The same wander around Carrickmines costs me nothing.
murpho999 wrote: » Why should the car get priority over everything? Dun Laoghaire is a town where people live and work etc. It also has good public transport links. It's also a nicer environment to shop in than a soulless US style retail park like Carrickmines. The idea that parking is so important for retail is disproven when you look at the city centre where parking is exorbitant but the shops are busy. Mostly full of shoppers who are not in their cars. Why can’t Dun Laoghaire do that?
themont85 wrote: » At last some good news for the main street of Dún Laoghaire. There hasn't been anything good really for 25 years apart from Bloomfields. Schools closing, college closed, shops not fit for modern purposes, Ericsson closing ect. Maybe this will turn the tide.
2RockMountain wrote: » Unless you think that somebody gave away the land on which the Carrickmines parking is located for free, and somebody painted the marking for free, and the security guys who supervise it are unpaid volunteers, you know the parking in Carrickmines is not free - it's just built into the prices that you pay in the shops there.
ted1 wrote: » You missed the part about buying nothing. Bottom line is if I buy a top in the carrickmines shop it'll cost 10 euro. To buy it in dun Laoighre will cost 12.40. customers don't care what kind of economics go on in the back ground the bottom line what the product costs them.
2RockMountain wrote: » How often do people go to Carrickmines and buy nothing? No coffee, no snack, no weedkiller in Woodies? It's not exactly the nicest place to spend leisure time - people go there to shop. You can put your hands over your eyes/ears like the see-no-evil monkeys if you like, but that doesn't change the facts - you're paying for the parking. There is no free lunch.
2RockMountain wrote: » How often do people go to Carrickmines and buy nothing? No coffee, no snack, no weedkiller in Woodies? It's not exactly the nicest place to spend leisure time - people go there to shop.
Fratton Fred wrote: » It's like the IKEA of south Dublin!
Stephen15 wrote: » Ballyogan retail park is a sh1thole firstly despite it saying its Carrickmines it's in Ballyogan to appeal to poshies to go too. I wouldn't want to spend longer than five minutes in the place would only go there if I really needed something. Would much prefer shopping dl it's pity there's hardly any shops in the place. I don't parking is the only issue in dun laoghaire it's lack of decent shops or any shops for that matter. If dl had a few decent shops people might actually go to it but there's very few shops left in DL that aren't either charity or pound shops. Hown come people go dundrum if you have to pay for parking. If parking in DL was made free I'm sure many people will just hope on the Dart or 46a to be never seen again. While I don't think parking in DL should it should lowered to a nominal fee to cover the cost of providing the meter, inpectors and clampers Bray seafront not that bray is a leading light for DL has relatively cheap parking at a rate that is deemed acceptable by BMD to cover the costs but for DLRCO its just a racket and even more so DHC.
Stephen15 wrote: » Ballyogan retail park is a sh1thole firstly despite it saying its Carrickmines it's in Ballyogan to appeal to poshies to go too. I wouldn't want to spend longer than five minutes in the place would only go there if I really needed something.
