As if an M&S will make or break Limerick. ffs.
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David McWilliams had an article saying that very thing a couple years ago. In fairness they are now trying to reorient the city to face the river. Just accident/no planning that it developed that way is my guess. There was a main road and the shops were put on that or the streets off it.
Stupid question most likely, but reorient the city to face the river for what purpose?
The city is already broken, If it wasn’t for BT it would be like Beirut.
Marks and Spensers would be a major boost for town, you may not want to shop there but they’ll get people in, people with money to spend as well, but it needs a huge deal of work and should be backboned by local independent business where possible, but you need some of the big guys as well
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Limerick people have no pride in their city. Look at Andy lees fight in Thomond. If that was cork it would have sold out two times over.
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Three things to revitalise Limerick city centre:
- the opera house
- the rubby museum/mausoleum
- more chips with gravy outlets
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- More quarters.
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True, in 2018 were played a quarter final and won all Ireland . In 2019 no quarter and no AI
Am I correct in saying there is no cinema in city centre ??
Will anything go into that big Debenhams unit?
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The best hope is penny’s take it I’d say. There’s very little else could take a unit that size
Almost sure Penney’s own their own building in Limerick so couldn’t see them taking another one
We could have a whole Penny’s block
A Penney’s quarter even ?
An array of clocks up telling the time in Tokyo, Berlin and West Limerick
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Now we’re talking
Stick a euro saver beside Penney’s
The revitalisation of Nicholas St will be a help if they can continue to improve it. Limerick has a big fuck off castle with a big fuck off medieval cathedral down the street and a big fuck off river running right beside them - it should be Yank heaven, but that whole area was an absolute dive for years.
The city centre UL campus if it happens will be a big boost as well. Half of Limerick’s student population wouldn’t have a notion where the city centre is, and would have no real interest in finding out either.
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There have been talks of one reopening but they’ve never materialised.
What is needed as a start is to build good quality residential similar to the strand development (the new building at the ESB site is a good start). Getting UL in situ will also obviously be a big draw, but the housing stock has to be improved. What should be prime city centre sites are basically slums.
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Not since the savoy was knocked for the hotel. All on outskirts
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