Smithfield to be completed afterall

Yixian

http://buckplanning.blogspot.com/2009/10/smithfield-plaza-to-be-completed.html

Dublin City Council has secured €2.4 million in EU funding for the completion of Smithfield Plaza, 10 years after it was originally constructed.

The large open plaza was built in 1999 at a cost of £3.5 million as the centrepiece of the regeneration of the northwest inner-city area. However, the southern end of the plaza, through which the Luas line now runs, was never finished.

About time Smithfield needs to be Dublin's answer to southbank already, but the bloody place has been dead every time I've seen it for the past 5 years. It has so much potential - the Lighthouse cinema is great start, more in that vein and it'll be just what northside needs.

Dandelion6

I'll believe it when I see it...

Meeja Ireland

Yixian wrote: »

http://buckplanning.blogspot.com/2009/10/smithfield-plaza-to-be-completed.html

About time Smithfield needs to be Dublin's answer to southbank already, but the bloody place has been dead every time I've seen it for the past 5 years. It has so much potential - the Lighthouse cinema is great start, more in that vein and it'll be just what northside needs.

Do you know what they're going to add to it?

jdivision

It's a disaster. Yet another city council planning mistake. Smithfield could have been brilliant, instead a combination of mistakes by planners has resulted in a dead square and dead environs. Joke.