Limerick_Lass wrote: » Lads this thread is so depressing to read .... is it just getting worse so?
https://www.checkout.ie/retail/chemist-warehouse-to-open-new-limerick-store-219283
Opening this Saturday in Parkway.
thats a great additition
The Toll Cottages on Verdant Place, by Thomond Bridge , to become a café/bar: https://www.reddit.com/r/limerickcity/s/7ebRwaiURj
They may become a cafe/bar, but only if they can get planning permission. As per their planning application, the cottages are zoned as residential and a material contravention of the City and Suburbs Development Plan is needed for this to gain permission. That is likely to be a big stumbling block.
with Bakehouse 22 and Jack Mondays closing recently within a couple of hundred yards of this site, what makes them think this time its going to be different? Is the cafe/bar thing the easiest to get planning for?
Don't know what happened with Jack Monday's in the end but it seemed busy.
Bakehouse was a joke though. All that shop needed was an upgrade on the tiny little deli it had. Not some fanciful idea that the owner didn't seem to have any expertise in. It was neither the type of deli that is successful everywhere or modern coffee shop that is equally as successful.
Both the above had fallen way behind the times with the quality of coffee too. Treaty seems to be doing a decent trade with much higher quality coffee.
i dont know what they were thinking with bakehouse 22 it was terrible idea poorly thought out. at one point they attempted to try and take some of the pub trade from katie dalys by selling pints. they basically killed off the local shop part which wasn't great in years.
there is totally a market for something like that in the area there is a huge amount of footfall it just needs to have a decent offering.
Wasn't Bakehouse dreamed up by Dermot Bannon or one of those makeover shows ?
After months of being in the market, bakehouse 22/Tracey’s is sold so hopefully something decent will go in there and it’s not someone just buying to try to find a tenant. With regard to JJ Bowles’ new venture, I think it’ll be more an old quarter style cafe/bar than a coffee shop so Jack Monday’s demise shouldn’t be too much of a worry.
I can't imagine it will be anything like Old Quarter which I wouldn't call a cafe/bar at all.
what would you call it then? A pet shop?
Tbf, I was gonna say they’re going for something like the curragower but then I thought some smartass poster like yourself would come along and tell me the curragower is a restaurant and not a cafe/bar.
Well it's miles away from a cafe. It's a trendy bar venue that does a decent food trade. Old Quarter is pretty much the same as House which you would never call a cafe/bar.
I would see those little cottages as being more like Melody or Rift (when they do wine).
Off topic but The Old Quarter is also a Hotel .
There's a vet clinic opening in the old AIB building in Castletroy, opposite the Hurler's. This place must be empty for a decade, it's great to finally see something happening
Empty since 2005 would you believe!
AIB abandoned the premises and built a new branch next door, shortly after this attempted robbery.
https://archive.ph/2025.07.14-114653/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/rooftop-raid-on-limerick-bank-foiled-by-gardai-1.1305493
It will actually be a vet hospital - first of its kind in the region
full diagnostic facilities and operating theatres etc …
A lot of work going on in the old Applegreen petrol station at Elm Motors, looking at all the tarmac machines it might be a drive through.
There's been no planning applications in to change the use of the site, so I can't see it being anything other than a petrol station.
Maybe some sort of drive through petrol station 🤣
probably get seen quicker there than UHL.
Aren't all petrol stations technically drive through?
I thought Treaty Vets had all those facilities
i would be surprised if there was any issue with the planning as it was sold to them from LCCC under the condition that it would become a Cafe/bar type thing
What I omitted to say is that there seems to be a new section of road going around behind the existing shop building that was being laid with tarmac so as to allow cars to drive around the building which led me to wonder if it was going to be a drive through. Apologies for confusion.
Whoosh!!!!
Indeed the properties would have been put out to tender and the proposal would have formed part of their tender application.
Council would be open to compensation and having to repurchase the property if planning was/is refused.
No idea about planning but from what I've heard it will be a drive through coffee place, same as the one's on the way to Lahinch or Kilkee….and the one recently opened in Hospital(?).
Aldi on Roches street opening next Thursday the 24th at 8 am.
God that was a long project from it being first mentioned to getting to an actual opening date
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