Point Village Shopping Centre

The Waterfront South Central tower has been refused and realistically needs a change in primary legislation to happen so that'll be years away. There is permission for basement works but they aren't going to do those without the above ground elements allowed.

Construction works on site of Castleforbes Industrial Park to strart in July.



Glenveagh Properties has sold a Premier Inn hotel site in the Dublin Docklands to German investor Union Investment.

The Dublin-listed company sold the planned 262-bedroom hotel site as part of an approximately €70m forward funding arrangement that will result in Union Investment taking ownership of the hotel.

In a statement Glenveagh said The Premier Inn hotel will form a “key component” of a wider mixed-use development at Castleforbes in the Docklands.

This development also includes 1,256 apartments and 12,545 square metres of office space known as the Freight Building.

Stephen Garvey, CEO of Glenveagh, said the company was “delighted” to partner with “the hotel experts” of Union Investment on the project.

“This marks the start of delivery of a significant development in the Docklands which will provide a sustainable mix of residential, hotel and office accommodation in this prime city centre location,” Mr Garvey said.

“The project forms part of a wider masterplan for our Dublin Docklands sites and is testament to our commitment to keeping sustainable development at the heart of everything we do."

Construction of the hotel will begin next month, and it is scheduled to be ready for business in Autumn 2023.

The hotel will be operated by UK-headquartered hotel group Whitbread under its Premier Inn brand, as was previously announced by Glenveagh.

“We have always expected the sale of the hotel would be logical at some point however the nature of the forward funding deal provides a degree of comfort that there is an appetite for forward funding deals to be done at the Docklands,” Dudley Shanley, analyst at Goodbody, said.

Any idea what's happening with penthouse apartments in Spencer Dock? They seem to have green netting over most of them.

Great news. I assume it'll just be a Tesco Express but it will provide some activity and passive surveillance to that section of street particularly in the evenings.

Eddies is still on the list of retailers in various places on the shopping centre itself - Salad Box was removed. Its also still on Eddies site

The Beckett Locke is serving non-guests now but there's still limited capacity for sit down food particularly earlier in the week.

Latest on Dunnes Stores Saga fom the Courts. Looks very much like Dunnes know they have no case but are prepared to spend money in order to drag out their eventual store opening in the Point Village. Summer 2022 looks a decent bet .

Dunnes gets stay on fitting out Point Village anchor store

Fit-out was originally due five years ago

about 20 hours ago

Mr Justice David Barniville earlier this month granted Point Village Development Ltd an order that the supermarket chain fit out a long-awaited anchor store in Dublin’s docklands. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Dunnes Stores has been given a limited stay on a High Court order that it fit out a long-awaited anchor store in the Point Village in Dublin’s docklands.

Five years after a deadline passed requiring Dunnes to fit it out, Mr Justice David Barniville earlier this month granted Point Village Development Ltd (PVD) an order that the supermarket chain do the work.

On Wednesday, Dunnes was granted a limited stay in relation to fit-out pending appeal of the High Court decision but refused a stay on the decision related to other technical and administrative requirements to preparing the store for opening.

Michael Collins SC, for PVD, urged Mr Justice Barniville not to grant a stay saying Dunnes had not identified any substantial grounds for an appeal.

Dunnes had run points bordering on the unarguable and they had delayed the process in a number of challenges and appeals over the years in their instructions to their lawyer, Martin Hayden SC, who with “his characteristic anarchic brilliance” had succeeded in delaying the project for 10 years, he said.

No arguable point of appeal had been identified and it would be entirely contrary to the justice of the case to grant a stay, he said.

Mr Hayden, in reply, thanked Mr Collins “for the promo and I will forward the bank draft in due course”. He disputed Mr Collins’s suggestion that Dunnes had lost in most of its cases and said “we are not ahead on numbers but not that far behind”.

Substantial costs

The costs of fitting out the store is substantial and there was fundamentally a disagreement on interpretation [of the contract with PVD] here which, while the High Court had emphatically rejected the Dunnes’ view, the appeal court may or may not say it is incorrect, he said.

Even if the court was not prepared to grant a stay on all the preparatory work, he asked there at least be a stay on the fit-out element.

Mr Justice Barniville said Dunnes is entitled to appeal and the appeal itself does not operate as a stay.

It was not immediately obvious what the grounds of appeal are but Dunnes are entitled to ventilate its arguments in the Court of Appeal where the judge expected the case would get an early hearing date.

He was prepared to grant a stay until the case comes before the Court of Appeal for directions on how the appeal should proceed. Arguments as to a further stay could be made before that court.

He also awarded the costs of the case to PVD.

Fresh has also started fitout, but both it and the Spencer Dock Tesco unit are convenience stores with notions (of being posh and of being a full supermarket respectively)

Tesco Express has notions of being a supermarket. They're basically full price convenience stores with a loyalty card!

Interesting news regarding Glenveagh Developments of Castlefores Site

https://www.independent.ie/business/australian-super-pension-backs-deal-for-700-apartments-in-dublin-docks-41057415.html

Business Post two weeks ago confirmed Tesco have leased the Spencer Dock corner unit for 20 years. Think the barbers has finally opened near the Mayson.

Is that the one opposite Boca?

Fresh fitout has been onsite for a few weeks.

The signs down there have the names of a hairdresser (dry and fly) and a coffee place up which haven't yet opened

I went for a wander inside The Samuel and the bar/restaurant is in the basement ...not exactly inviting for an afternoon drink

It appears to be very big, but if you think about it, once the stock room, staff room, toilets and all else is installed, it'll likely be much the same size as any other express tesco.

Image of the other New Hotel on the corner of Castleforbes Ind Est and East Road also at the early stage of construction

Tesco seems just about ready to open, shelves are 60-70% stocked and looks like they were tuning the self service checkouts this evening... I am guessing it could be open by Friday?

Fresh on the other hand seem to be going much more slowly.

The Bottle Boy pub has a lovely enclosed and partially enclosed courtyard at the back which I was very impressed with, also visited the restaurant/bar in Beckett Locke... it reminds me of a WeWork office! They also are cashless, so take card payment only, which caught out one customer when we were there. They have signage up for a cocktail bar but don't think its open yet.

Couldn't find the bar or restaurant in the Samuel!

Staff at Tesco Spencer Dock told me today that they are opening Thursday June 2nd

Until they run out of money.