Stores opening or re-opening in Sligo

dee_mc wrote: »

DV8 sells clothing for men and women - mostly aimed at fairly young people I'd say.
It's in the unit on O'Connell St where AWEAR was.
Poppy Lane looks to be a boutique and is opening in Johnston Court.
Hobby Shop is at 47 O'Connell St, was there a card and party shop there before? Looks like art and hobby stuff mostly for kids.
They're all chainstores from what I can see.

Anyone know what’s going in to the ground floor unit in the building opposite Lidl in Finisklin? There’s been work going on over the last couple of weeks and an awning and outdoor seating area has gone in. It appears to be a cafe/restaurant.

A new coffee shop had opened in Cleveragh Retail Park.

Lidl car park is now in chaos during the hours this is open...car park is constantly full...lunchtime today(Fri) was crazy....alot of fustrated drivers, only take one ignorant prick to stuff it up for everybody.

Thankfully he was beeped so much he finally moved!

The county council offices need to be in the town hall (if its big enough) or build a building next to it

McHugh's being reopened as Gracie's

https://www.facebook.com/Graciesbarsligo/

New Ice Cream parlor Scrumdiddly's opening up today in Sligo's Penneys store :

Ironically , I would have think before this if you walked through the Penney's store eating an icecream or waffle you would quick enough be accosted by store staff and asked to 'eat that outside please'

Waits for ice cream spilt on floor , then customer to slip up and make a claim! because its bound to happen I should think

Good to see O'Connell Street recovering a bit.

Quayside should be levelled, a kip.

new asian foodstore opened up in temple street near market yard:

https://www.facebook.com/billy.wei.9026

Had posted in the stores closing thread about the hairdressers up High Street. It now appears to be a bridal shop, Graceful Occasions or something like that.

Also spotted that Specsavers have expanded into the unit beside them, it was a bit cramped before and there were even chairs outside for peopl to wait. business seems to be booming for them.

There's a new Turkish barber shop in O'Connell Street across from the post office. They do hot towel shaves.

Badly needed and a good idea, a proper open plan food court with facilities in the center of the town for business hours.

Currently all we have is pubs and coffee shops bar deli counters, will encourage more day trippers in to the main street.

They need to ensure to gut enough of the place to create a large space though, the first floor around by the coffee shop is a kip. Would be better to take the Elverys space for it and push them back towards O'Connell St, but from the pictures it looks like they are pushing for EJs/H Samuel side as food court area.

looks like it will be lovely - reminds me of where I lived near to in the UK , we lived near and used to go shopping in Central Milton Keynes shopping centre ad that had real trees growing inside the shopping centre, even birds used to fly around in there and make nests in the trees - lovely atmosphere and feel to it

Which unit is that, or what was there most recently? I can't picture it and Google maps didn't help me!