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Ferrybank Shopping Centre - The Poll

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    #62
    BlaasForRafa
    Registered Users Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Its on the market for €225k
    http://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/20m-shopping-centre-under-hammer-for-225000-29334553.html

    Waterford council should buy it and then stick a big Waterford flag on it and annex the land.


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    #63
    crazy_kenny
    Registered Users Posts: 413 ✭✭crazy_kenny


    Open it up with a number of high profile retail units.
    Thats a different development close to Abbeygate. Another celtic tiger mess.


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    #64
    Nypd
    Registered Users Posts: 781 ✭✭✭Nypd


    Open it up with a number of high profile retail units.
    crazy_kenny wrote: »
    Thats a different development close to Abbeygate. Another celtic tiger mess.

    Another planning mess


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    #65
    wellboytoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭wellboytoo


    BlaasForRafa wrote: »
    Its on the market for €225k
    http://www.independent.ie/business/commercial-property/20m-shopping-centre-under-hammer-for-225000-29334553.html

    Waterford council should buy it and then stick a big Waterford flag on it and annex the land.
    SOLD for €250k last week
    bought by Evel Knevell I would imagine


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    #66
    lassykk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,596 ✭✭✭lassykk


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    Great to see it sold... Hopefully it will be opened up or used for some purpose soon.


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    #67
    gowley
    Registered Users Posts: 629 ✭✭✭gowley


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    wellboytoo wrote: »
    SOLD for €250k last week
    bought by Evel Knevell I would imagine

    i think this is a different centre, the one nearer abbey park.


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    #68
    wellboytoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭wellboytoo


    gowley wrote: »
    i think this is a different centre, the one nearer abbey park.

    This IS the one close to Abbey park that was sold and I was referring to.


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    #69
    wellboytoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭wellboytoo


    Two years since this thread started only change has been public money opening a library, I wonder how much more patience NAMA have with this ?


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    #70
    thomasm
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭thomasm


    wellboytoo wrote: »
    Two years since this thread started only change has been public money opening a library, I wonder how much more patience NAMA have with this ?

    Usual load of rumours about this place. B & Q, Dunnes(even after paying 20 million not to move in still persist)

    The HSE it seems did have a good look at it for a primary care centre but backed off in the end.


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    #71
    Jambo
    Registered Users Posts: 986 ✭✭✭Jambo


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    thomasm wrote: »
    Usual load of rumours about this place. B & Q, Dunnes(even after paying 20 million not to move in still persist)

    The HSE it seems did have a good look at it for a primary care centre but backed off in the end.

    I heard the Dunnes one myself , its probably the same rumour that's doing the rounds apparently coming from Dunnes Employee that the entire project is still in the pipeline. I would not expect anything to come of it though.


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    #72
    Gadgie
    Registered Users Posts: 1,079 ✭✭✭Gadgie


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    thomasm wrote: »
    Usual load of rumours about this place. B & Q, Dunnes(even after paying 20 million not to move in still persist)

    I was under the impression that the payment was due whether or not they moved in due to their deal with the developer, and the reason they were trying to avoid paying it was because the shopping centre was now controlled by NAMA.

    Still, I'll believe they're moving in there when I see it.


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    #73
    danjo-xx
    Registered Users Posts: 5,393 ✭✭✭danjo-xx


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    Read something the other day about Dunnes laying off some staff due to the though trading conditions. So that wouldn't encourage much hope for Ferrybank


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    #74
    Gardner
    Registered Users Posts: 1,116 ✭✭✭Gardner


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    if you were to buy this place how much would it cost ya :)


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    #75
    obezyana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,498 ✭✭✭obezyana


    Gardner wrote: »
    if you were to buy this place how much would it cost ya :)

    Ill let it go to ya for 200 boss and thats only coz i knows ya........now give me my money quick iv another stupid project to build :)


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    #76
    BBM77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,874 ✭✭✭BBM77


    Open it up with a number of high profile retail units.
    Whatever the ground is worth. With the boundary extension, the various retail developments in the city centre, the general resurgences of the city centre, its complete financial unsutainability and the possible pedestrian bridge from Ferrybank I think its day are numbered.


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    #77
    jelutong
    Registered Users Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭jelutong


    Featured on Rte Drivetime this evening. 3rd biggest shopping centre in Ireland.
    Ross Abbey centre got a mention also. Available on podcast.


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    #78
    Irishlad2014
    Registered Users Posts: 101 ✭✭Irishlad2014


    Plans for the expansion of city square on News and Star today according to WLR. If anyone has a picture could they post is?


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    #79
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    Yes Boss wrote: »
    Should never have received planning in the first place. Parochial planning at its worst. However, I would not knock it. I would use it as a conference venue, to benefit the entire region.

    Why? What's wrong with it, other than that it's standing empty?


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    #80
    wellboytoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭wellboytoo


    katydid wrote: »
    Why? What's wrong with it, other than that it's standing empty?

    It's too big in the wrong place and Dunnes paid €20 million not to go in there, has a footfall of about 10 per hour on a good day other than that not a thing.
    The only thing it doesn't do is bark.


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    #81
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,838 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    i suspect if this place was open as intended, traffic would be a bit of a serious issue at peak times. area seems to be jammed at times.


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    #82
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    i suspect if this place was open as intended, traffic would be a bit of a serious issue at peak times. area seems to be jammed at times.

    Fair point


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    #83
    katydid
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,351 ✭✭✭katydid


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    wellboytoo wrote: »
    It's too big in the wrong place and Diunnes paid €20 million not to go in there, has a footfall of about 10 per hour on a good day other than that not a thing.
    The only thing it doesn't do is bark.
    Of course it has a low footfall...there's nothing there bar a library!:)


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    #84
    wellboytoo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,081 ✭✭✭wellboytoo


    Probably the only reason NAMA hadn't made a hard decision on this to date.

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/dunnes-is-blasted-by-high-court-in-store-case-34234580.html


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    #85
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users Posts: 9,624 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Very interesting, every trick in the book comes to mind.


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    #86
    kayaksurfbum
    Registered Users Posts: 700 ✭✭✭kayaksurfbum


    It looks to me like Dunnes said "If we open in this store we will make no money, lets fight it in the court, it will be cheaper."

    Really bad decision to build the place.


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    #87
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,838 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    kayaksurfbum wrote: »
    Really bad decision to build the place

    its up now though so lets do something with it


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    #88
    JourneyMan8
    Registered Users Posts: 161 ✭✭JourneyMan8


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    its up now though so lets do something with it

    exactly, think of the amount of jobs the place will create.


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    #89
    robtri
    Registered Users Posts: 5,473 ✭✭✭robtri


    Open it, but not as retail, something else entirely (specify if possible)
    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    its up now though so lets do something with it

    Don't be silly, if we where positive like that we wouldn't be able to sit around bitch about how KK only built it for the rates and that Waterford CC would never do anything like that.......


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    #90
    Wanderer78
    Registered Users Posts: 28,838 ✭✭✭✭Wanderer78


    robtri wrote: »
    Don't be silly, if we where positive like that we wouldn't be able to sit around bitch about how KK only built it for the rates and that Waterford CC would never do anything like that.......

    stupid kilkenny!
    back on track!


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    #91
    fuzzy dunlop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,142 ✭✭✭fuzzy dunlop


    robtri wrote: »
    Don't be silly, if we where positive like that we wouldn't be able to sit around bitch about how KK only built it for the rates and that Waterford CC would never do anything like that.......


    Well it's a glaring example of a KK county council cluster****.. It only got through the planning process because the county council manipulated the Local Area Plan. If the thing was viable it would be open and all the bitching in the world would not stop it. The fact that its not tells its own story.


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