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  • #122
    linny
    Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭linny


    Ya thought it should of started by now


  • #123
    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


    They are probably waiting for the new road to be completed first for access.


  • #124
    citykat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭citykat


    Security fencing being erected on Padmore & Barnes wall on Wolfe Tone street this morning. They'll be breaking though this very soon.


  • #125
    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


    Plans by the cinema to use the old railway viaduct as a walkway leading down to McDonagh Junction, that should be interesting.


  • #126
    miece16
    Registered Users Posts: 597 ✭✭✭miece16


    that would be pretty cool. having a bridge walkway across the road to mcdonagh
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  • #127
    imacman
    Registered Users Posts: 690 ✭✭✭imacman


    Drawings here
    http://www.kilkenny.ie/iDocsWebDPSS/listFiles.aspx?catalog=planning&id=1576

    Its the same company (IMC) as the existing cinema so I presume the old one will close down when new one is built


  • #128
    eoinfitzokk
    Registered Users Posts: 294 ✭✭eoinfitzokk


    hi5 wrote: »
    Plans by the cinema to use the old railway viaduct as a walkway leading down to McDonagh Junction, that should be interesting.

    Great idea.


  • #129
    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


    miece16 wrote: »
    that would be pretty cool. having a bridge walkway across the road to mcdonagh

    A bridge would be very cool but I suspect it will be more like steps down to the foot path and a pedestrian crossing to McDonagh Junction, you'd never know though.


  • #130
    Autosport
    Registered Users Posts: 22,225 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    It's great to finally see work being done there :)


  • #131
    citykat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭citykat


    hi5 wrote: »
    Plans by the cinema to use the old railway viaduct as a walkway leading down to McDonagh Junction, that should be interesting.

    According to the planning application this walkway is actually a long term aim of KKCoCo. The developers only assure that this long term aim will not be compromised by the cinema development. Ironically the only objector to the new cinema (afai can see) is MacDonagh Junction.


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  • #132
    citykat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭citykat


    imacman wrote: »
    Drawings here
    http://www.kilkenny.ie/iDocsWebDPSS/listFiles.aspx?catalog=planning&id=1576

    Its the same company (IMC) as the existing cinema so I presume the old one will close down when new one is built

    According to the plans, 10 screens tucked in behind Padmore & Barnes. No indication at all what is the plan for the rest of the site i.e. north of the CAS. No indication either what's happening to the hostel at Johns Green which is part of the overall site.


  • #133
    FunkyJunky6969
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭FunkyJunky6969


    Hi Peep's, any update on the new Cinema ? Have they started it yet ? :)


  • #134
    citykat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭citykat


    FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »
    Hi Peep's, any update on the new Cinema ? Have they started it yet ? :)
    That whole area, Mart, Wolfe Tone, Greensbridge is one big building site at the moment. I imagine they'll start once the CAS road is complete.


  • #135
    FunkyJunky6969
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭FunkyJunky6969


    citykat wrote: »
    That whole area, Mart, Wolfe Tone, Greensbridge is one big building site at the moment. I imagine they'll start once the CAS road is complete.

    Nice one thanks for the reply and update. I'm really looking forward to having a brand new spanking Cinema in our great city. I hear it's going to be 10 screen ! . Hell yeah :)


  • #136
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,385 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    Any low down on what else might be going in there? 10 screen cinema is only going to take up a small section of this big site!
    I'd say whoever was backing the original K Mart plans must have lost millions...


  • #137
    citykat
    Registered Users Posts: 2,704 ✭✭✭citykat


    road_high wrote: »
    Any low down on what else might be going in there? 10 screen cinema is only going to take up a small section of this big site!
    I'd say whoever was backing the original K Mart plans must have lost millions...

    I'd say there's something planned but given how much grief they'd receive, they're holding off until the CAS and cinema are complete.


  • #138
    linny
    Registered Users Posts: 572 ✭✭✭linny


    Remember reading at the time, that they got planning that the entrance to the new cinema had to be from the new link road, but if they built the cinema before the road, they could have an entrance out onto the one way street cant think the name of that street, but once the new link road was complete they had to close that entrance and make new entrance on to new link road, so maybe there just waiting on link road to be completed, cost less money in the long run


  • #139
    hi5
    Registered Users Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭hi5


    I was trying to figure what they're doing with the Comer Rd down to the roundabout at the site, it looks like its going to be 2 roads split by the existing trees down the middle?


  • #140
    Comerman
    Registered Users Posts: 1,390 ✭✭✭Comerman


    I saw that too but knowing the councilthey will probably knock all those trees.


  • #141
    dzer2
    Registered Users Posts: 2,938 ✭✭✭dzer2


    Comerman wrote: »
    I saw that too but knowing the councilthey will probably knock all those trees.

    Not allowed to knock them Thank god


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  • #142
    FunkyJunky6969
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭FunkyJunky6969


    road_high wrote: »
    Any low down on what else might be going in there? 10 screen cinema is only going to take up a small section of this big site!
    I'd say whoever was backing the original K Mart plans must have lost millions...

    I heard rumours that Tesco, Penny's and Domino's Pizza want to go there. Has anyone else heard anything ? ✌


  • #143
    nootroc
    Registered Users Posts: 192 ✭✭nootroc


    dzer2 wrote: »
    Not allowed to knock them Thank god

    They thanked god that the hurricane a couple of years ago made the trees at the old swimming pool a public hazard. Not too many other trees met the same exacting criteria at the time. Could happen again.


  • #144
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,385 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »
    I heard rumours that Tesco, Penny's and Domino's Pizza want to go there. Has anyone else heard anything ? ✌

    Heard Penneys potentially...Tesco "rumours" have been doing the rounds for two decades and that site (no exaggeration).
    I'm surprised myself with how much land the relief road appears to be taking up. I guess it'll look different when finished though.


  • #145
    FunkyJunky6969
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭FunkyJunky6969


    road_high wrote: »
    Heard Penneys potentially...Tesco "rumours" have been doing the rounds for two decades and that site (no exaggeration).
    I'm surprised myself with how much land the relief road appears to be taking up. I guess it'll look different when finished though.

    Fingers crossed Tesco do come. I think we are the only county in Ireland with out one, and if Penny's go to a new bigger site I think it would be a good move. As the one in Market Cross is really cramped !


  • #146
    road_high
    Registered Users Posts: 19,385 ✭✭✭✭road_high


    FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »
    Fingers crossed Tesco do come. I think we are the only county in Ireland with out one, and if Penny's go to a new bigger site I think it would be a good move. As the one in Market Cross is really cramped !

    Yes Kilkenny is....Leitrim with about 30k people (less than 1/3 of co. Kilkenny) can support 2 Tescos!
    I'd like to see Penneys remain in town though if possible.


  • #147
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »
    I heard rumours that Tesco, Penny's and Domino's Pizza want to go there. Has anyone else heard anything ? ✌

    Tescos? yeah right. We'll probably get another Dunnes store instead.


  • #148
    FunkyJunky6969
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭FunkyJunky6969


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    Tescos? yeah right. We'll probably get another Dunnes store instead.

    Ah now that would be re dick !


  • #149
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »
    Ah now that would be re dick !

    Considering that there were 3 Dunnes Stores her at one point. Its not that far fetched.


  • #150
    FunkyJunky6969
    Registered Users Posts: 158 ✭✭FunkyJunky6969


    JohnMc1 wrote: »
    Considering that there were 3 Dunnes Stores her at one point. Its not that far fetched.

    Haha I hope your wrong ! On another note Dealz would be a good addition to Kilkenny. Might see them coming in the future.


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  • #151
    JohnMc1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭JohnMc1


    FunkyJunky6969 wrote: »
    Haha I hope your wrong !

    So do I.


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