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Things the city needs, and does not have currently

topcat72

Maybe this has been done to death but, am interested in thunking what the city lacks and cound use - both social and business, environmental. Obvious ones like improved public transport etc are a given, so ive left out those.

A few to start
(a) a good low cost youth hostel, there is none , in comparison with Ennis, Galway Cork etc. Brings and attracts a mostly young, value clientele, often travelling students etc. I remember there was some mention of one in pre planning for the old Detorris pub place on Mungret street , but never happened. Other Hostel on John street became an apartment block.
(b) A public accessible viewpoint or lookout point at the top of one of the taller buildings in the city -overlooking the river ideally.
(c) A good Mexican or Tex mex restaurant. Steady...
(d) A good (large) secondhand bookshop, like Charle Byrne's . record/vinyl also.
(e) somewhere in city centre that sells toys

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Mc Love

Mr.H wrote: »

Strip club?

Definitely needs this

Shapey Fiend

Think one opened next to The High Stool (or in there after it closed) in the early 00's. Only lasted maybe a year though.

Cookiemunster

Shapey Fiend wrote: »

Think one opened next to The High Stool (or in there after it closed) in the early 00's. Only lasted maybe a year though.

There were two. One on Catherine St and one in the basement of the Globe. I can't remember the name of either, but neither lasted more than a few years.

Mc Love

Lapellos was one

[Deleted User]

KFC in the city centre would be nice

Mc Love

[Deleted User] wrote: »

KFC in the city centre would be nice

Are you mad? Chicken hut is much nicer

[Deleted User]

Mc Love wrote: »

Are you mad? Chicken hut is much nicer

I love both equally

johnmolloy554

A festival called "PurgeFest". We could run it on the June Weekend where one could purge at one's leisure. Instead of "Fashion Friday" , it could be "Flailing Friday" where Celia and her girls could be hunted down. The Purge Village could be held in Arthurs Quay Park and the culmination would take on Sunday with "The Great Limerick Purge" where all the scrotes could be hunted down and disposed of.

Would easily be worth €10m to the City.

[Deleted User]

The old dunnes stores in town is such a waste of a building the council should buy it and build flats out of it for the homeless

arch_stanton

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The old dunnes stores in town is such a waste of a building the council should buy it and build flats out of it for the homeless

A prime spot on the Shannon with views up and down, including sarsfield bridge and over to King John’s castle and you want to build flats?

Limerick needs a new focal point in the centre. That site should be used for a major tourist or cultural centre. Some thing to attract people to the city centre. Make it a combined music/cinema/theatre/museum. Build it up a couple of stories and put panoramic restaurants and cafes on top. It would be a much better location for the rugby museum than O’Connell street.

Cookiemunster

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The old dunnes stores in town is such a waste of a building the council should buy it and build flats out of it for the homeless

The council can't just buy it if Dunnes don't want to sell and they don't. The council can CPO a derelict site, but Dunnes are currently taking the council to ABP to stop the council putting the site on the derelict sites resister.

myshirt

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I love both equally

Are you trying to incite a riot?

The_Dave

Mc Love wrote: »

Lapellos was one

La Chic the other (not sure of the spelling, so went with a guesstimate)

thesimpsons

arch_stanton wrote: »

A prime spot on the Shannon with views up and down, including sarsfield bridge and over to King John’s castle and you want to build flats?

Limerick needs a new focal point in the centre. That site should be used for a major tourist or cultural centre. Some thing to attract people to the city centre. Make it a combined music/cinema/theatre/museum. Build it up a couple of stories and put panoramic restaurants and cafes on top. It would be a much better location for the rugby museum than O’Connell street.[/QUOTE]

only said the same myself this morning. Coming in over Sarsfield Bridge or walking along Clancy Strand its so clear that this building is so badly needed to be a focal point for the city. The current idea of the rugby museum in O'Connell St, while a great idea, is very badly designed imo. Too tall and thin for surrounding buildings and half arsed above Fine's jewellers.

as a side note - how were they given permission to board up with cement the beautiful arches at the front of the new court house, and looking like its some cheap cement even at that. What's worrying too is that at Hanging Gardens at the moment look like they doing the same thing to some beautiful arches.

brianregan09

There's no proper KFC's in limerick anyway, even the ones in the UK are 100 times nicer than the 2 rubbish ones we have

tototoe

brianregan09 wrote: »

There's no proper KFC's in limerick anyway, even the ones in the UK are 100 times nicer than the 2 rubbish ones we have

Find them fine myself. The one in Galway is shocking though.

nim1bdeh38l2cw

Deleted User wrote: »

The old dunnes stores in town is such a waste of a building the council should buy it and build flats out of it for the homeless

M&S would be perfect for it :pac:

Mc Love

Forget KFC i want a hillbillies

mgbgt1978

arch_stanton wrote: »

A prime spot on the Shannon with views up and down, including sarsfield bridge and over to King John’s castle and you want to build flats?

Limerick needs a new focal point in the centre. That site should be used for a major tourist or cultural centre. Some thing to attract people to the city centre. Make it a combined music/cinema/theatre/museum. Build it up a couple of stories and put panoramic restaurants and cafes on top. It would be a much better location for the rugby museum than O’Connell street.

That Rugby Museum (Crouch, Touch, Pause...or whatever they're calling it) is never going to happen in the planned location.
Not looking for a row now, but let's wait a year or so and see how it pans out.

Harasrailltub

Stab*City wrote: »

Lots of these:

still cant believe that there is not one public basketball ring in the "city of sport"

Even way smaller places like Ennis and Ballina Co.Mayo have more than one public court

fryup

Lap dancing club?

Stab*City

Harasrailltub wrote: »

still cant believe that there is not one public basketball ring in the "city of sport"

Even way smaller places like Ennis and Ballina Co.Mayo have more than one public court

There is a petition:

https://www.change.org/p/limerick-city-county-council-outdoor-public-sporting-facilities-for-limerick-city-county

Arrival

Mc Love wrote: »

Are you mad? Chicken hut is much nicer

Yeah because it HAS to be one or the other, we definitely shouldn't have varieties

Jose Maria

A proper riverside park - 150 - 200 acres with all the amenities mentioned a few pages earlier - pitches, playgrounds, activities, mini zoo, botanical garden, boating lake with lots of trees, my 3 favored locations would be in no particular order

1. Westfields out to the limerick tunnel
2. the Island field maybe crossing over to the long pavement (level St Marys park in the process)
3. Groody Valley

Battersea park London would be a template

Mc Love

Arrival wrote: »

Yeah because it HAS to be one or the other, we definitely shouldn't have varieties

Have you not seen what happened in the Burrito Wars!

johnnyryan89

Harasrailltub wrote: »

still cant believe that there is not one public basketball ring in the "city of sport"

Even way smaller places like Ennis and Ballina Co.Mayo have more than one public court

There was one in St Mary's Park, was the only one I've ever seen around but it was taken down last week and moved to Moyross.

Jose Maria wrote: »

A proper riverside park - 150 - 200 acres with all the amenities mentioned a few pages earlier - pitches, playgrounds, activities, mini zoo, botanical garden, boating lake with lots of trees, my 3 favored locations would be in no particular order

1. Westfields out to the limerick tunnel
2. the Island field maybe crossing over to the long pavement (level St Marys park in the process)
3. Groody Valley

Battersea park London would be a template

You can buy my gaff for €500,000 to make a start on levelling the place.

Jose Maria

You can buy my gaff for €500,000 to make a start on levelling the place.[/QUOTE]

Would get you a nice gaff overlooking the park, it could be worth 500k

dashoonage

i cant believe no one has said batman....

Persiancowboy

Really can't believe that many posters here think that fast-food outlets somehow enhance a city/city centre......seriously??????

And as for a rail links to Shannon....there is a modern motorway linking the airport....what possible justification is there to construct a competing transport network to an airport with such a small footfall? There isn't a rail link from Dublin to the airport with some 30m annual passengers so I'm mystified as to why some people think such a development is necessary in Limerick.

I think the river offers a huge opportunity to develop amenities if the right imagination and vision are in place. If you add in additional pedestrianisation of streets around the city centre there is significant scope to improve the overall attractiveness of the city.

I agree with an earlier poster about the potential for the Nicholas Street area....i'd add in the Irishtown area as well....basically Limerick planners should look at trying to create an "Old Town" as is common in most European cities.

zulutango

Persiancowboy wrote:

And as for a rail links to Shannon....there is a modern motorway linking the airport....what possible justification is there to construct a competing transport network to an airport with such a small footfall? There isn't a rail link from Dublin to the airport with some 30m annual passengers so I'm mystified as to why some people think such a development is necessary in Limerick.

The railway link to Shannon was suggested in the context of a major population increase, as planned by the government and Council. In that sense there's a logic to it. The lack of a decent rail link in Dublin really just highlights the poor infrastructure up there. There should be some kind of decent mass transit links between population centres and airports.