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New Shops/Businesses in Bray

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    #1502
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,473 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Joeytheparrot wrote: »
    Lush type shop apparently

    That's exactly what it is.

    Was open on Saturday/ A shop full of Bath Bombs. Will probably do well for Christmas and then gone by Easter.

    Do business people not actually look at what is needed in the town rather than just open anything?


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    #1503
    PandaPoo
    Registered Users Posts: 4,977 ✭✭✭PandaPoo


    murpho999 wrote: »
    That's exactly what it is.

    Was open on Saturday/ A shop full of Bath Bombs. Will probably do well for Christmas and then gone by Easter.

    Do business people not actually look at what is needed in the town rather than just open anything?

    I work across the road and it doesnt seem busy at all. Hopefully it picks up closer to Christmas. Can't imagine it lasting too long unfortunately.


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    #1504
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭George White


    Ecco shoes opening beside the former Eddie Rocket's.
    What's going on with Dicker? They've just let it rot there, have the funereal display still in there.


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    #1505
    Annasopra
    Registered Users Posts: 41,062 ✭✭✭✭Annasopra


    New pound shop type shop on Connolly Square before Polonez

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #1506
    fjon
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    George White wrote: »
    Ecco shoes opening beside the former Eddie Rocket's.
    What's going on with Dicker? They've just let it rot there, have the funereal display still in there.

    Ecco is a decent shop for the main street. Hope it's busy enough to survive.
    Anyone know what's happening with Eddie Rockets? It has been Sold for a while now. Will it open again as Eddie Rockets, or something else?


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    #1507
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,473 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    fjon wrote: »
    Ecco is a decent shop for the main street. Hope it's busy enough to survive.
    Anyone know what's happening with Eddie Rockets? It has been Sold for a while now. Will it open again as Eddie Rockets, or something else?

    Doubt it will open again as an Eddie's as that's a franchise which is nothing to do with the ownership of the building.


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    #1508
    Annasopra
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    murpho999 wrote: »
    Doubt it will open again as an Eddie's as that's a franchise which is nothing to do with the ownership of the building.

    If someome purchased the franchise it could!

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #1509
    fjon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭fjon


    Been a while since anyone has brought up the Florentine Centre. Could this be it, finally?

    5v6FQ1E.jpg


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    #1510
    Thargor
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    I really hope if that cinema is built that they include at least one giant screen, people are a lot more picky about their screens these days than when planning for that started back in the day, having a cinema on the main street would be amazing.


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    #1511
    NobodyImportant
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    I hope the Florentine centre gets built finally, that whole area is an eye sore. Would love to know the traffic plan for it though.

    Did anyone see that the council are planning to knock this 100 year old, perfect house, for 50 car parking spaces in Herbert Car Park? https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/council-plans-to-demolish-725k-period-house-to-extend-car-park-36420261.html 

    We all give out about our heritage being knocked down and here they are again, trying to demolish a gorgeous period house, for parking....

    Here is the planning submission form and email address in case anyone would like to object to this travesty.


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    #1512
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,571 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    an Fit4Less (Engergie) gym is opening soon in the old cinema.

    http://www.f4l.com/bray/

    Warning wear a pair of sunglasses before visiting the website above (the colours are garish).


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    #1513
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭George White


    Seems like "Town Fair" beside Polonez is already closed. Some kind of Christmas themed popup shop.


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    #1514
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭George White


    Yet the door still has open on it. Despite being locked and empty.


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    #1515
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭George White


    I see they've but a fake front over the KFC. So we won't be seeing that open soon.
    Pity.


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    #1516
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,929 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    Lidl has been approved for the AO Smith site at last, not sure if the previous refusal was overturned or if they rejigged their plans or what, a cinema was dropped from the scheme apparently which is a bit bizarre tbh.


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    #1517
    Alun
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    Thargor wrote: »
    Lidl has been approved for the AO Smith site at last, not sure if the previous refusal was overturned or if they rejigged their plans or what, a cinema was dropped from the scheme apparently which is a bit bizarre tbh.
    How are they going to manage the traffic? It's bad enough with that crazy set of lights by the shopping centre without adding another entrance to the mix.


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    #1518
    2011
    Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,575 Mod ✭✭✭✭2011


    Thargor wrote: »
    a cinema was dropped from the scheme apparently which is a bit bizarre tbh.

    That's a pity :(


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    #1519
    Creamy Goodness
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    being honest, I'd much rather they'd build a proper big cinema on the outskirts of the town, florentine centre strikes me as somewhere that would have like 8 screens each only slightly larger than a cinema in a King Edward Road home.

    You'd want the cinema to have at least one IMAX, iSense type screens, which require a massive amount of space


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    #1520
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,929 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    2011 wrote: »
    That's a pity :(

    There's one being built on the main street isn't there or has that scheme been cancelled already?


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    #1521
    loyatemu
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    Thargor wrote: »
    There's one being built on the main street isn't there or has that scheme been cancelled already?

    there's one as part of the Florentine Centre - 5 screens I think.


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    #1522
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,473 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Creamy Goodness wrote: »
    being honest, I'd much rather they'd build a proper big cinema on the outskirts of the town, florentine centre strikes me as somewhere that would have like 8 screens each only slightly larger than a cinema in a King Edward Road home.

    You'd want the cinema to have at least one IMAX, iSense type screens, which require a massive amount of space

    There are not that many IMAX screens around, one in Dublin, and a few Odeon's with their own iSense screens so they are not like a standard cinema screen.

    There will be a 5 screen cinema in the Florentine which could be good, it does not mean they will be small.


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    #1523
    Annasopra
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    George White wrote: »
    Seems like "Town Fair" beside Polonez is already closed. Some kind of Christmas themed popup shop.

    It is still open. It is now a chinese supermarket.

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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    #1524
    Plastik
    Registered Users Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭Plastik


    Had a look at the Lidl planning earlier. Two entrances, one on the Boghall utilising the old factory entrance, and another one that breaks into the Killarney Road Business Park. Killarney-Boghall junction to be upgraded prior to commencement. Survey on traffic levels found/predicted the increased traffic of the development to be negligible and below the threshold under which further research would be required by TII.


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    #1525
    murpho999
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    Irish Times Article

    Interesting article about supermarket planning issues. Details how Aldi's plans for the Heiton's site was blocked and how the new AO Smith developed might be delayed all due to objections by Tesco and Supervalu.


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    #1526
    P0lygon Wind0w
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭P0lygon Wind0w


    Tesco have submitted their appeal against Lidl at AO Smiths. All for the good of the town of course.

    Big business strangling development for their own gains. Same old story. Planning needs a shake up.


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    #1527
    Thargor
    Registered Users Posts: 17,929 ✭✭✭✭Thargor


    I thought they were going ahead because they'd successfully appealed all the objections from last time?


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    #1528
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭George White


    Is Tropica closed now on Quinsborough Road?
    Is Dicker's just being left to rot there by the famiky? All his memorabilia is still in there, the shutters closed.


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    #1529
    Tippex
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    George White wrote: »
    Is Tropica closed now on Quinsborough Road?
    Is Dicker's just being left to rot there by the famiky? All his memorabilia is still in there, the shutters closed.

    was only saying the same to my missus this morning when we passed by dickers that and mccabes are a real eyesore now


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    #1530
    George White
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭George White


    McCabe's is "going to be reopen soon", I was told, but Dicker's they don't know about what's going on. Surely, the family would sell it.


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    #1531
    Antrim_Man
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    Whats going in beside the court rooms on the Boghall road, old warehouse now getting large doors and windows.


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