Businesses/Shops opening in Cork city/suburbs.

Met some friends for lunch in the Black Market today, very quiet. While we were there, not a single person went near the pizza stall. The stuff from the burrito/nacho place was tasty & Soma coffee is good. Looks like they have a roasting setup in there as well.

Google maps says that it's 15 minutes walk from the Bus Station to the Marina Market.

Imperial to MM also 15 minutes walk. Google maps allows for pretty slow walking - I'd do it in 10.

The Black Market, is, literally, across the road from MM.

From an environmental point of view, we are royally fcuked when people consider a 10 - 15 minute walk as "taking an age"! I really do despair.

Perhaps I am mistaken that the Black Market is across the road from the Marina Market but I stand by the fact that MM is 10 to 15 minutes walk from The South Mall - 17 minutes from GPO, according to Google - that's "an age" ? The claim was made about the walk to MM, not The Black Market

AW. Poor Whiskey. It must have been awful for you. I hope you've gotten over it.

15 minutes walking is an age!😂

(while I understand rain and poor lighting may make a walk less pleasant but, no matter how you spin it, it doesn't make it any longer.) I can't imagine any reasonable person claiming that a 15 minute walk is a long walk by any means for an able bodied person. Although, I have been shocked on here before by people's reluctance to walk pretty much anywhere and the short distances between places in Cork that people often insist are way, way longer.

I will leave it here as I've dragged this thread off topic enough. But

You subsequently made comments about the lighting and the rain and the oh so awful environment after I challenged the notion that 15 minutes is "an age" of a walk. It isn't. The fact that it may be dimly lit, have uneven surfaces or it might be raining really has nothing to do with the distance between MM and the city - which is what I was commenting on. Perhaps your shoes were pinching you, too, but that would not change the distance. Your comment that I challenged was that it "takes an age to walk to the MM" - no matter what caveats you decide to add in after your original comment doesn't change my challenge.

Had you said that it was a dark, unpleasant and unsafe walk - that would be a different matter - but that's not what you said.

The files for Aldi's extension plans in Douglas have been uploaded to the City Council's website. It doesn't look like any of the retail units are going anywhere. The extension is to do with the reception area and some of the ancillary retail storage space

Tabletop Cork (formerly of Castle St) are opening a pop-up shop in Merchants Quay SC for the month of December.

Great to see them back in the city!

Yet another cbd shop open on oliver plunkett street.

Good to see this redevelopment approved and new tenants have been secured. This retail park was never fully tenanted in it's current form. The closure of 4Home left the development desolate looking.

Jysk and Chemist Warehouse are to open alongside the redeveloped Lidl store.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/commercial/arid-40760124.html

There will also be a coffee shop unit and one more additional unit.

Some retail news outside the city centre. Carraig Donn have opened a new store in Douglas Court, where New Look were. Here's Health are opening a café/restaurant in the old High Street Books store. That means the centre is fully let outside of I think the old ice cream shop, the former Boots and maybe something by the post office

Oh that’s strange. He did say on social media recently that he had big news coming for 2022.

Maybe I dreamt it- could have been on his story or something. I’d find it very hard to believe he’s gone anyway. He was booked up for months. It’d be an awful pity.

Passed by Tom Winters again - see photo. It could be just a refurb but still really odd.