Nuke the crescent
I would agree. Pedestrian streets, park and ride etc are all pointless unless there is something to come into town for. Limerick has serious potential on the waterfront down by the Shannon. Get rig of the eye sores (Arthur’s quay, sasrsfield house etc) and put something worth seeing/doing/attending in there first
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Limerick is done lads. Move on.
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Agreed attractions are badly needed but I think the structure to all the attractions is needed like park and ride and pedestrian streets. Its a chicken and egg situation. I wouldn’t do shopping myself in town mostly go for bites to eat or market on Saturday, crescent is too handy for that
I have often wonders why the city centre in it’s current guise was planned/designed/built to pretty much face away from the river. What was the logic behind it
the busiest footfall i’ve seen in most cities are places with green areas and open markets, doing foods and bits and pieces out of stalls and what not. Places that develop their own identity. I’m thinking of places like Borough Market, Camden Market in London, even the English market in Cork. They’re always thronged. Gives people a chance to go in and browse with a real atmosphere.
My guess would be that riverfront property would be extremely expensive.
But even the areas on the river front face away from the river as opposed to utilising and accentuating it for the most part.
examples?
Big spaces and open air cafés, despite the wet climate could be a big improvement and bring people in. Clever us of smaller streets pedestrianised connecting Arthur’s Quay, o connell Street beford row/Thomas Street Catherine Street/ pery Square to peoples park and train station. Little impact on current traffic and connecting half the city. The space could be used for cultural events to bring people into city.
In the past North facing would be my guess.
Arthur’s Quay, The Dunnes Stores on Harvey’s quay, the old Dunnes/shopping centre on Sarsfields avenue. Pretty much all that stretch running from the Shannon Bridge over to the old court house past matthew’s bridge. That should have been the focal point as it is an area with serious potential but instead they faced the city away from it.
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Well if the city centre is dead from a commercial sense, why not try and do something else with it. Focus on turning it into a residential area or something else other than shops shops shops. If folk are going to go to Childers road or the Crescent, give them some other reasons to go to the city.
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Isn’t limerick city 
one of the few cities where it’s cheaper to rent in suburbs than the city centre?
retail has to face the footfall mate. No good having a shopfront looking out over the water if it inconveniences people and they have to walk around to get into it, unfortunately
Forget about retail lads. It’s dead the World over. Cities have to adapt. First you need to get people living in the city centre. Build apartments etc. Then you encourage cafe, bars and restaurants. Retail will follow back once the city has footfall. But the days of everyone going into town to do their shopping are over.
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Do you mean the opposite?
Yup — make it a social/entertainment centre first … They should have covered over Cruises st with a canopy years ago also …
Would be nice if they could trial putting some kind of transparent roof with pedestrian street with outdoor dining/drinking spaces under it.
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They could do the opposite of what they do in some cities in Spain with the canopies. As mentioned, put up canopies to keep the rain out, and have some kind of outdoor spacing / heaters, and give people a reason to go back to the city centre. Forget about shops.
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