Limerick Businesses Opening

johnnyryan89

Reputable Rog wrote: »

They have agreed to buy a site on the Ennis Road, the site is currently under contract.

Hopefully in next to showtime so can bring some chicken into the cinema with me.

bigpink

Habitat new nightclub multi function venue launched on facebook today

https://m.facebook.com/habitatlimerick/

dunworth1

Reputable Rog wrote:

They have agreed to buy a site on the Ennis Road, the site is currently under contract.

That's great news thanks

bigpink

johnnyryan89 wrote: »

Hopefully in next to showtime so can bring some chicken into the cinema with me.

Oh god no please dont do that

Special Circumstances

bigpink wrote: »

Oh god no please dont do that

It could be a centrepiece of the next city of culture bid. Fried Chicken Night at the Cinema. No hired in acrobats just good solid limerick culture.

johnnyryan89

Special Circumstances wrote: »

It could be a centrepiece of the next city of culture bid. Fried Chicken Night at the Cinema. No hired in acrobats just good solid limerick culture.

Get it sponsored by chicken hut and you're onto a winner.

OfTheMarsWongs

I wonder if KFC are going into the soon to be expanded Applegreen in Coonagh? Or will it be closer to Jetland.

Reputable Rog

No they have agreed a different site and are now turning their attention to this the City Centre.

bazz26

KFC food is absolute $hite imo.

zulutango

Reputable Rog wrote: »

No they have agreed a different site and are now turning their attention to this the City Centre.

Great. Another junk food outlet for the city centre.

We can't have enough of them really. Here's hoping a few more off-licences, bookies and euro shops open too.

jaxxx

zulutango wrote: »

Great. Another junk food outlet for the city centre.

We can't have enough of them really. Here's hoping a few more off-licences, bookies and euro shops open too.

+ Cash for gold places :pac:

Special Circumstances

jaxxx wrote: »

+ Cash for gold places :pac:

e-cigarettes for gold!

johnnyryan89

zulutango wrote: »

Great. Another junk food outlet for the city centre.

We can't have enough of them really. Here's hoping a few more off-licences, bookies and euro shops open too.

Yeah blast them and their decision to create jobs for folks within the city centre because if there's one thing we don't need it's more jobs.

elastico

zulutango wrote: »

Great. Another junk food outlet for the city centre.

We can't have enough of them really. Here's hoping a few more off-licences, bookies and euro shops open too.

A few more charity shops too please.

Insect Overlord

zulutango wrote: »

Here's hoping a few more off-licences, bookies and euro shops open too.

Are you including the supermarkets in that list (off-licenses)? I can only think of two offies in the city centre (Fine Wines on Catherine Street and Parnell Street) and three in walking distance of town (Number 21 near Punch's Cross, Fine Wines near Thomond Bridge, and O'Brien's at the Parkway). I wouldn't call that a proliferation at all.

Itsdacraic

zulutango wrote: »

Great. Another junk food outlet for the city centre.

We can't have enough of them really. Here's hoping a few more off-licences, bookies and euro shops open too.

If there is a market for them they will open. If the market can't sustain them they will close.

Mc Love

Anyone looking forward to the Gravy Wars? Chicken Hut vs KFC

vkid

I'd take KFC over the chicken hut any day. The place scares me..but each to their own. KFC is nice in limerick. The one in Galway by the Clayton is absolutely rank. Hope it's the same operator as the one in childers road.

Irish_rat

zulutango wrote: »

Great. Another junk food outlet for the city centre.

Shows the amount of people that can't be arsed to cook these days

mossym

Irish_rat wrote: »

Shows the amount of people that can't be arsed to cook these days

that's part of it alright, but if it was only that there would be an equal amount of decent restaurants and rubbish joints like this springing up.

more frighteningly, it shows that people will spend money to make sure they have nice clothes, a fancy car, but will shovel any $h&t down their throats.

Reputable Rog

They have been looking in the centre for years, can't get the site they want.
It's the same in all the main cities, a number of shops and restaurants have their eyes on the city, just can't the site they want.
It doesn't help that Cruises Street was such a terribly designed development.

Exeggcute

Cruises Street should be knocked. It's not fit for purpose

kerryked

Exeggcute wrote: »

Cruises Street should be knocked. It's not fit for purpose

How do you think it could be improved?

Exeggcute

kerryked wrote: »

How do you think it could be improved?

with a wrecking ball?:D

Bigger units. Something like Opera Lane in Cork.

kerryked

Exeggcute wrote: »

with a wrecking ball?:D

Bigger units. Something like Opera Lane in Cork.

Bedford Row is pretty much like Opera Lane in Cork and imo that's pretty dead. Could be down to the position of the street, the rents being too high etc I guess.

Not disagreeing with you, I think Cruise's Street should be modernised, just wanted to see what you think could be done to improve it.

zulutango

Cruises Street is an awful kip. It's beyond redemption I think. It probably would be cheaper to knock the whole lot and start again.

Or they could put more coloured banners on it, and hanging baskets from every lamppost.

sioda

It's not beyond redemption just needs more businesses open after six it should have had the retail and food service better spaced. Covering it could give it a new lease of life

zulutango

sioda wrote:

It's not beyond redemption just needs more businesses open after six it should have had the retail and food service better spaced. Covering it could give it a new lease of life

It's possibly the tackiest, most hideous street in Ireland! Can't imagine covering it will really do much for it, to be honest.

Vanquished

Cruise's Street is a cheap, characterless pile of ****e built by developers taking advantage of generous urban renewal tax breaks. It was so poorly designed that it was obsolete within a decade.

It says it all about planning and local governance in Limerick that a 200 year old hotel steeped in history was sacrificed for such a terribly conceived and executed project. We'd have been so much better off retaining the hotel and revitalising/redeveloping the lanes to the rear of the site.

Poxyshamrock

Anyone know what's going on in the old Bus Eireann unit on Thomas Street? Being stripped at the moment.