Sam the Sham wrote: » How recent is that document? What I really want to know is: is summer 2019 the current projected completion date?
Sam the Sham wrote: » According to Cllr Pat Dunne’s (no relation) flyer that landed in my postbox today: “I have just heard that the work may come to a halt as the last remaining shop, pharmacy [sic], has not yet reached agreement with Dunne’s Stores.” One can imagine the standoff. Hickey’s is getting almost no foot traffic other than from their most dedicated customers. So they can’t continue doing business in that location. Yet the promise of a big payout must also be factored in. No mention of Texas Fried Chicken, which is also still trading.
francois wrote: » On a related note, I see the Bridge House bar is being demolished, any idea what is going on?
L1011 wrote: » Maxol extension, licence will be used for an off-licence
Gavin shels wrote: » Much needed extension, always rammed! They need to try doing something to stop it being used as a rat run through out onto Dolphin Rd!
L1011 wrote: » Dunnes wanted to make Tesco leave due to lack of trade. That's why they ran it in to the ground.
L1011 wrote: » As goes leaving the southern bit of the structure - that was the plan but Dunnes have since taken over the Molloys there which is the unit at the end and the entire top floor. That would suggest they're intending to get rid of it too.
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » Couldn't they have given Tesco (formerly Crazy Prices, formerly Quinnsworth, formerly Power Supermarkets ) notice that their lease would not be renewed at the next review? It seems weird to give a commercial tenant an indefinite right to renew, they might as well have a freehold in that case - so the landlord's only option is to whack up the rent to a silly level, if the lease even allows that... What we're now witnessing is the culmination of a 45-year-long power struggle between the two biggest supermarket groups in the country. Dunnes play the long game, that's for sure...
Hotblack Desiato wrote: » Couldn't they have given Tesco (formerly Crazy Prices, formerly Quinnsworth, formerly Power Supermarkets ) notice that their lease would not be renewed at the next review? It seems weird to give a commercial tenant an indefinite right to renew, they might as well have a freehold in that case - so the landlord's only option is to whack up the rent to a silly level, if the lease even allows that... What we're now witnessing is the culmination of a 45-year-long power struggle between the two biggest supermarket groups in the country. Dunnes play the long game, that's for sure... Hmm is there a new planning application does anyone know? Edit: does anyone know if it's possible to run a self-contained off licence and a self-contained upstairs pub on the one licence? Many Molloys and other offies bought up a pub licence so they could open, I'm just wondering if a pub and an offie which share the same footprint but are effectively separate businesses could share a licence. Did the pub over the off-licence have two floors? it looks like the structure has two above ground floors. Despite living not that far away I never set foot in Baron Johns or its other incarnations.
Sam the Sham wrote: » According to Cllr Pat Dunne’s (no relation) flyer that landed in my postbox today: “I have just heard that the work may come to a halt as the last remaining shop, pharmacy [sic], has not yet reached agreement with Dunne’s Stores.” One can imagine the standoff. Hickey’s is getting almost no foot traffic other than from their most dedicated customers. So they can’t continue doing business in that location. Yet the promise of a big payout must also be factored in.
SPDUB wrote: » Well there's been no work in the centre for the last 6 weeks and from what I heard there is indeed a standoff
G-Man wrote: » Besides the building work is the car park or old swimming pool being touched.. Have council any plans to upgrade the area.
cherryghost wrote: » Stupid. Don't they realize a revamp, relocation and reopening of the centre will be GOOD for their business??
L1011 wrote: » Only if they can do the move back/forth with zero downtime otherwise people will move prescriptions elsewhere and be extremely hard to get back Dunnes would need to front up for mirrored IT systems, stock etc in the new location to let them move overnight. Done for the Hickeys in the old Dundalk S/C
Wheety wrote: » Yep. Builders walked off site because they couldn't do any work. It's the Pharmacist refusing to budge. They were offered space in the Dunnes until the refurbishment is finished but won't accept.
fredkierans wrote: » I asked a member of staff in Dunnes Stores yesterday and apparently the pharmacy will be closing for good around December 12th, so hopefully that will pave the way for the redevelopment work to progress.
