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East Wall, Dublin 3

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    #962
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,745 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    who would invest in building hotels right now?


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    #963
    blue_blue
    Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭blue_blue


    This is true. The petrol station on Amiens Street that closed last year to make way for a big fancy hotel is now back operating again! The developers saw the signs.


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    #964
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,651 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I believe the operator there is actually the company that was intending to build the hotel - they have other fuel operations.

    However, that hasn't stopped there being maybe 3 planning apps a month consistently in the past 3 years.


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    #965
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    So how many hotels is that planned now? There's the one on East Wall Road at the car dealership beside Aldi, there's one on East Road beside the credit union/apartment block, there's this one at the Docklands Business park ...and is there one going in at the corner of Jonny Cullen Hill where it meets Sheriff St or is that just apartments? I know that we all need a staycation by now but the East Wall Tourism Board will be kept busy.


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    #966
    L1011
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    Yes, there's one at that corner and one further down in Castleforbes Business Park plus one in Connolly; plus one at Spencer Dock Luas plus one beside the Point plus another on Mayor Street....

    However the one mentioned above is the East Road one. The Docklands Innovation Park is going for apartments.

    I suspect there'll be one in the Bennetts Yard proposal when that lands.


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    #967
    MayoSalmon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,240 ✭✭✭MayoSalmon


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    who would invest in building hotels right now?

    People who can see the trees from the forest


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    #968
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,745 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Imagine staying in a hotel beside the Aldi in East wall, grim!


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    #969
    L1011
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Imagine staying in a hotel beside the Aldi in East wall, grim!

    I suspect they're planning for both off-site meeting room and medium term room rentals to Oracle/Ergo/other EastPoint tenants; who won't care about it being grim but will love the location.

    I know from a former employer (not on that list) that even 500m away from the office works as a break from the norm for a meeting room for anything important - this was hitting the Green Isle in that case.


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    #970
    subpar
    Registered Users Posts: 489 ✭✭subpar


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Imagine staying in a hotel beside the Aldi in East wall, grim!

    The clearing up of long term derilict sites and eye sores which unfortunately have blighted the area for decades has to be a good thing and will bring much needed regeneration and empoyment.


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    #971
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users Posts: 13,745 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    subpar wrote: »
    The clearing up of long term derilict sites and eye sores which unfortunately have blighted the area for decades has to be a good thing and will bring much needed regeneration and empoyment.

    A lot of the buildings and housing around there should have been leveled years ago and replaced with apartments. There's a couple of semi-d housing estates in East Wall that look like they were only build in the last couple of decades, ridiculous.
    Are they ever going to sort that bridge out that can only allow one direction at a time? In what other capital city would you get something like that in what is basically the city centre?


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    #972
    odyssey06
    Registered Users Posts: 27,880 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    A lot of the buildings and housing around there should have been leveled years ago and replaced with apartments. There's a couple of semi-d housing estates in East Wall that look like they were only build in the last couple of decades, ridiculous.
    Are they ever going to sort that bridge out that can only allow one direction at a time? In what other capital city would you get something like that in what is basically the city centre?

    Didn't the bridge used to be two way up until fairly recently or am I misremembering?

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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    #973
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    I'm actually in favour of the hotel going in at East Road because this street is completely sub standard, both from a design POV and an anti-social behaviour POV. The above article mentions developer contribution towards local infrastructure so hopefully that'll go towards widening and improving the ridiculously narrow pavements, while having non-residential services attracting footfall to the area will also moderate anti social behaviour there.


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    #974
    L1011
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    Its more likely that East Road will go one way than the bridge being returned to two way, tbh.

    If they removed all on-street parking there might be space for two lanes and suitable footpaths; but I suspect one way, two way cycle lanes, wider paths and parking bays is more likely.


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    #975
    plastic glass
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    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Imagine staying in a hotel beside the Aldi in East wall, grim!

    Great option if you have business in eastpoint. Also cheaper alternative than the Gibson for the point-I presume.


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    #976
    COH
    Registered Users Posts: 7,035 ✭✭✭COH


    Has anyone had any recent success in getting flood cover as part of your home insurance in East Wall?



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    #977
    definitedragon
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭definitedragon


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119330450#Comment_119330450

    Will send you a PM



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    #978
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    Does anyone know what businesses are going into the two units beside Centra on East Road? They seem to be renovating them in preparation for something opening up. I thought maybe they were extending the Centra, but it looks like they're keeping them as separate units. Also, they needed to bring some underground utility pipes from across the road and they did a terrible hack job digging up the new paving that went in for the new N4 bus stop outside the polish shop opposite to achieve it.



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    #979
    blue_blue
    Registered Users Posts: 190 ✭✭blue_blue


    Dry Cleaners and Abrakebabra.

    https://planning.agileapplications.ie/dublincity/application-details/143247


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    #980
    Gloomtastic!
    Registered Users Posts: 8,316 ✭✭✭Gloomtastic!


    God help the poor buggers working nights in Abrakebra is all I will say.



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    #981
    COH
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    Hi everyone.

    Just read this thread from the start... quite the saga! Seems EW has really undergone some big & positive changes since the thread began in 2004.

    Question for those of you living there now, had the anti social behaviour calmed down? Have spent a bit of time there as of late as the wife & I are likely buying our first home there soon and the place seems pretty quiet.

    Have lived in the city center all my life, no issues with kids/teenagers acting the bollocks tbh, but was surprised not to see many around. Especially down around Church St that earlier posts in this thread would have had you thinking was a bit of a warzone.

    Have their been any issues with flooding the Hawthorn Tce end recently? I read there was a drainage issue previously.

    Finally - there seems to be a good vibe about the place, lots of regeneration, but where is the best place within walking distance to get a decent pint of Guinness :) ?



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    #982
    Alicano
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Alicano


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119737355#Comment_119737355

    Hi COH. I'm a happy home owner in EW. PM me for any chat or info you may need. Cheers.



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    #983
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    Abrakebabra on East Road now open



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    #984
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,149 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119737355#Comment_119737355

    East Wall is generally fairly quiet (and I'd regularly be driving through it late on Friday and Saturday nights) but it's not somewhere you can get away with any kind of display of wealth or having nice things. A mate's Alfa GT was keyed twice in his own driveway in East Wall for no reason other than petty begrudgery.



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    #985
    Alicano
    Registered Users Posts: 441 ✭✭Alicano


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119803198#Comment_119803198

    Does your friend have a camera doorbell? Just sounds very random. Could have happened elsewhere maybe? And that kind of stuff is possible in any location. We aren't wealthy and have no driveway. We have a Mercedes jeep and an Audi if that qualifies as decent. And nobody has even looked in the wing mirror to check their hair. The street mentioned by previous poster (Hawthorn Tce) is lovely. Real quiet and very friendly people living there. Any time i'm walking my buggy or my dog I always get a smile and a hello from the residents. Don't want to clog up the timeline. Happy to chat to that poster thinking of purchasing. Good boardsie inside info and all that 🙂



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    #986
    Sleepy
    Registered Users Posts: 24,149 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    No camera doorbell or similar and he's since left the area as a result of those incidents. I couldn't tell you which street it was and it was a few years ago now but thought I'd share the story. Honestly, East Wall is an area I'd be happy to live in as a single or young couple (Mrs Sleepy has a lot of family in the area) but it's not somewhere I'd personally want to raise kids.



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    #987
    Archidub1
    Registered Users Posts: 4 ✭Archidub1


    Construction starting on the 1,300 apartments on the corner of east road and castleforbes business park this week. I think the first block is 107 apartments. CIS on twitter confirmed that commencement notices have gone in


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    #988
    kravmaga
    Registered Users Posts: 1,945 ✭✭✭kravmaga


    Does anyone know when the next protest is on outside the new asylum reception centre on East Wall Road, Two Gateway old ESB offices.

    Ive been told that coach loads of Arabic/ Somalian men (80) approx arrived late last night and were brought into the building very quickly followed by a delivery of beds and linen.

    Its all over social media, Youtube, Tik Tok, Twitter, FM104 / RTE covered it and Philip Dwyer from The National Party.

    No consultation with the local community or /no local Politician's present at the protest today at 2pm.

    This is very concerning what is happening here and all over Ireland. These men are un-vetted and even the Gardai were called and said they dont know who they are.??

    The govt should be told we are full and our EU overlords in Brussels that Ireland Inc is full and closed. Dont see them being housed in leafy Dublin 4, 6 or 18.

    So 80 already arrived, another 300 to arrive. This is going to be a cluster fcuk.

    https://www.fm104.ie/news/fm104-news/locals-protest-in-east-wall-protest-asylum-seekers/
    https://www.tiktok.com/discover/dublin-woman-shouting-at-refugees
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDlhMEilQM&ab_channel=PhilipDwyer
    https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2022/1119/1337137-east-wall-protest


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    #989
    AngryLips
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    Great to see this empty building being put out to use. Why wasn't anyone protesting the fact that it was vacant? Haven't heard any locals talking about this, only the usual suspects from the far right and NP.



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    #990
    dontmindme
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119897158#Comment_119897158

    Absolutely!!...Especially if you don't live in the area like yourself. Fill up all the empty office space in this undesirable part of the city with lots of foreign undesirables...yay!



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    #991
    AngryLips
    Registered Users Posts: 2,677 ✭✭✭AngryLips


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119897278#Comment_119897278

    I live in the area. Bit hypocritical that the ones at the protest who are claiming that Ireland is full didn't have a problem with the vacant building sitting there this whole time, no? By the way, most of the locals weren't at the protest, but if most of the people there were locals then I imagine the neighbourhood will only stand to gain from the arrival of these new neighbours.



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