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New Business openings and closures around you?

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    #362
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    Another victim is Three Beans Cafe Cabinteely also londis in Cabinteely was closed for little while around christmas only to reopen as The Olive Branch a bit of a stupid name for a convience store/newsagent sounds more like a meditaraen restaurant or sumtin


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    #363
    EricPraline
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    Noticed that Book Deals, a discount bookstore has opened on Blackrock's Main Street, next to Diep. Not exactly Waterstones, but better than another vacant shopfront.


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    #364
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    New restaurant in Malahide Village -already cut it's days & opening times in half.
    Juice /healthy food shop closed -next street.
    New health food shop " humming bird" opened & closed within 3 months.
    Second full cafe closed on the parallel road -nothing there now.
    Gift & bookshop in the arcade -closed & unit still empty.
    " new" second hand shop in first floor of arcade now shut & unit stil to let.
    Children's clothes shop in arcade now closed & unit still to rent.
    Cafe under Supervalue was under new ownership & totally revived -saw shutters pulled down & final closure note in the window last week.
    Wholesale butchers in same area -shut down late last year & unit boarded up.
    Old head shop -unit still empty.
    Etc.
    All within 2or 3 streets of a small village area.

    Seems thriving businesses are banks, bookies & choppers/chineesers. ;(


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    #365
    highly1111
    Registered Users Posts: 967 ✭✭✭highly1111


    Saw that the old greengrocers on ballinteer avenue has been reopened - don't know if it's same management or brand new business but it's another greengrocers. Great news for ballinteer. Superquinn fruit and veg is lovely - but mighty expensive.


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    #366
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    Pagoda on the top floor of Dún Laoghaire shopping centre have a 'closing down' sale going on at the moment. :(


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    #367
    davej
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭davej


    Mick Murdock wrote: »
    Pagoda on the top floor of Dún Laoghaire shopping centre have a 'closing down' sale going on at the moment. :(

    On and off they have had a closing down sale for the last 10 years....
    :rolleyes:

    davej


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    #368
    JustAThought
    Registered Users Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    davej wrote: »
    On and off they have had a closing down sale for the last 10 years....
    :rolleyes:

    davej

    At least twenty!!!!


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    #369
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    Oops.. Not somewhere I frequent too often so wasn't aware of that.

    The Motion Picture closing down sale seems to be going on for a while too.

    :)


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    #370
    the groutch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,096 ✭✭✭✭the groutch


    that's nothing, there was a place on Liffey Street in town called Blue Grass, their closing down sale lasted about 10 years straight.


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    #371
    EricPraline
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    Clothes shop Golden Spiderweb has closed on Blackrock main street, another empty shop front. They're still in Stillorgan SC apparently. The SC is actually almost thriving these days, since Donnybrook Fair and Starbucks moved in. Often difficult to get parking there at the weekends without resorting to the overflow car park. Big change from a few years back when demolition was being mooted.


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    #372
    Aard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    It was because of the redevelopment potential that leases weren't being renewed. I don't think demand ever really waned for Stillorgan SC.


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    #373
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Why Starbucks never set up shop in DL I'll never understand? If they got into that strip along by Byrnes & Medows, they'd cream it in.


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    #374
    OssianSmyth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 267 ✭✭OssianSmyth


    Insomnia is opening a café in the former AIB in Deansgrange.


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    #375
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,473 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    Reader's Bookshop in Dun Laoghaire are selling every book they have in stock for €2 each.

    The place filled up greatly as I passed it over the weekend.


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    #376
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    Closing this Saturday (you can even buy the shelving after that date!). I had a good browse around, but found no hidden gems.


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    #377
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    Hmv is to reopen 4 shops which is great news as they always had good stores. Also i saw that the one in dundrum has been used as a walkway to the cinema section kinda depressing though walking through an empty shop in dundrum as well i saw a new shop will be opening opposite the carphone warhouse.
    I never why dere was no burger king in dundrum


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    #378
    Spidermensch
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Spidermensch


    EricPraline wrote: »
    Clothes shop Golden Spiderweb has closed on Blackrock main street, another empty shop front. They're still in Stillorgan SC apparently. The SC is actually almost thriving these days, since Donnybrook Fair and Starbucks moved in. Often difficult to get parking there at the weekends without resorting to the overflow car park. Big change from a few years back when demolition was being mooted.

    It'll always be stillorgan shopping centre to me, none of this pretentious 'village' bollocks.


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    #379
    Ush1
    Registered Users Posts: 11,470 ✭✭✭✭Ush1


    Hungry Bear café behind The Square in Tallaght closed down.

    Surprising as it was always busy.


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    #380
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    'Cooper & Young' (I think - Google returns nothing) Grocers opening in the former Corrig Stores.

    There's a sign in the window with an email address for CV's.

    They did a lot of work on the place by the looks of things. There is still the issue of no parking which seems detrimental to me.


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    #381
    EricPraline
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    Clodagh’s Kitchen restaurant/wine bar has opened in Blackrock Shopping Centre.

    http://www.clodaghmckenna.com/news/?p=616


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    #382
    Mick Murdock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,543 ✭✭✭Mick Murdock


    Mick Murdock wrote: »
    'Cooper & Young' (I think - Google returns nothing) Grocers opening in the former Corrig Stores.

    There's a sign in the window with an email address for CV's.

    They did a lot of work on the place by the looks of things. There is still the issue of no parking which seems detrimental to me.

    http://www.cooperandyoung.ie/

    They've done a hell of a renovation here. Looks really good from the outside. Assumed they were a chain or at least had multiple stores. Appears not to be the case.


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    #383
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,074 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    If they are good quality they should do well from their immediate locality, best of luck to them!

    Theres a big sweep of an area though now with no convenience store in it, between Monkstown village, Mounttown York Road all the streets off Tivoli and on to the back of Glasthule and Glenageary towards Dalkey. Not a single local shop!


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    #384
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Bellevue stores has closed as well. I would imagine the two Centras at Glenageary and Barnhill are taking a lot of local trade.


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    #385
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,074 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    Pity about Bellevue Stores, it surprises me as again its in the middle of a well off residential area and no other shops between the two Centra and Killiney SC. Maybe it needs a glam up job with franchise attractions to do any good


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    #386
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,074 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    By the way, theres a Tesco Express to be built on the Glenageary Road in the Golf Club development, work is underway. That should badly affect the Monkstown Farm shops as well as Centra Glenageary roundabout


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    #387
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    This might be a little off topic but the magic chef in stillorgan changed its name 2 andi's funny thing is its only a temopary sign and it says pizzaria instead of pizzeria


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    #388
    The_Wrecker
    Registered Users Posts: 471 ✭✭The_Wrecker


    Georges toy shop (knowles electrical) ceased.


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    #389
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 24,074 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    The_Wrecker wrote: »
    Georges toy shop (knowles electrical) ceased.

    Months ago.


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    #390
    youcancallmeal
    Registered Users Posts: 8,019 ✭✭✭youcancallmeal


    Anyone know what they replacing the petrol station with in Templeogue Village?


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    #391
    Synode
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,967 ✭✭✭Synode


    They're making it bigger


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