the city fathers

flutered

can you guys come up with just one idea, that would create employment, plus draw tourists in reasonable numbers to the city, seen as the city fathers have not an inkling.

Millie

Bring bands to King John's Castle as they did a few years back with The Frames.
Weather was shocking that night but an ideal setting.

Itsdacraic

Monorail

Kess73

Itsdacraic wrote: »

Monorail

Have you been watching the Simpsons?


How about a genuine rent/rates incentive for retailers to base themselves in the town centre.

And have it that the incentive is a bigger reduction to the rent/rates based on the length of the lease taken out by the retailer. Plus the rent/rate would be fixed for the term of the lease taken out.

Five year lease may see a 2.5% reduction
Ten year lease may see a 5% reduction
Fifteen year lease would see a 7.5% reduction
Maybe 10% being the cap on the reduction

And no stealth rates/charges to get back the reductions.

munstergirl

Jobs for Limerick is begining to sound like a sick joke.. I am so fed up of job hunting! 8 months now!! few interviews... blah..

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""Sounds"" like a TOTAL SCAM... how do you collect for charity and pay employees up to 800 euro a week!!!!

Let the people of limerick go for a walk around the city center without been harassed by CHARITY.. How can this sort of charity be allowed.. BAN IT!!!!


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Itsdacraic

Ideally you could develop a route from King Johns Castle back down towards the city center. Sort of like a real life working Bunratty village.
Have special incentives to people to set up craft, workshop type developments. Something like that.

Berty

The "city fathers" have many idea's but no money.

The Regeneration of St Marys Park area, bridge from King Johns castle to the Court house, the redevelopment of the potato market, the pedestrianisation of William Street and O'Connel St.

Who will pay for it?

Aidric

Kess73 wrote: »

How about a genuine rent/rates incentive for retailers to base themselves in the town centre.

And have it that the incentive is a bigger reduction to the rent/rates based on the length of the lease taken out by the retailer. Plus the rent/rate would be fixed for the term of the lease taken out.

Five year lease may see a 2.5% reduction
Ten year lease may see a 5% reduction
Fifteen year lease would see a 7.5% reduction
Maybe 10% being the cap on the reduction

And no stealth rates/charges to get back the reductions.

Hardly a new suggestion. City Businesses have been calling for it for years.

Berty

Aidric wrote: »

Hardly a new suggestion. City Businesses have been calling for it for years.

How about the free year thing some leasing companies were doing.

Stay for 2 years and get the 3rd year of rent free. They were doing this on Sarsfield Street anyway and nobody took up the offer.

Too little too late.

Itsdacraic

Berty wrote: »

The "city fathers" have many idea's but no money.

The Regeneration of St Marys Park area, bridge from King Johns castle to the Court house, the redevelopment of the potato market, the pedestrianisation of William Street and O'Connel St.

Who will pay for it?

The profit from the monorail would cover most of it. Then raffles, cake sales and car washes to pay for to rest.

Berty

Itsdacraic wrote: »

The profit from the monorail would cover most of it. Then raffles, cake sales and car washes to pay for to rest.

Monorail monorail..........monooooooooooorrrrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiilllllllllllllllllll.

Kess73

Berty wrote: »

How about the free year thing some leasing companies were doing.

Stay for 2 years and get the 3rd year of rent free. They were doing this on Sarsfield Street anyway and nobody took up the offer.

Too little too late.

That was a poor offer. Yes there was a year rent free, but that year was factored into the cost of the remaining years, and you had to sign for a minimum of five years not three for it. Where I used to work looked at the option of getting a unit there as the year's free rent would have freed up cash for the company, but once it was looked into, it was not the offer it seemed.

Kess73

Aidric wrote: »

Hardly a new suggestion. City Businesses have been calling for it for years.

I know it is not a new suggestion. I used to work in one of the places calling for it. Does not make it any less valid in my eyes though.


It is a no brainer in my eyes, have units that are bringing in a little less in rent and rates than during the so called boom years, or have empty units bringing in nothing.

flutered

how about a partnership with ul and maybe the co.co. if required, a conference centre at ul a few jobs in the building of it a few more in maintaing it, it would need marketing people quite a visitors when it up and running, or would it be impossible due to political egos, please do not bring the cost of building it up, as if ul were in the mood it would be built.