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New Business openings and closures around you?

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    #422
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    New mexican restaurant/takeaway in stillorgen el porko loco beside apache pizza


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    #423
    Dubl07
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Dubl07


    stehyl15 wrote: »
    New mexican restaurant/takeaway in stillorgen el porko loco beside apache pizza

    Interesting - have you tried it yet?


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    #424
    TheVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭TheVoodoo


    stehyl15 wrote: »
    New mexican restaurant/takeaway in stillorgen el porko loco beside apache pizza

    That's been there at least 6 months at this stage! It's ok, nothing to write home about imo.


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    #425
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    A friend told me another cafe is too open where the movie cafe place and more recently three beans cafe was suposed 2 be called the happy hippo or the hungry hippo or something like that. Its mad considering two cafes have opened and closed within the space of a 3 years


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    #426
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    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

    on the currently undeveloped side?

    applegreen in the farm has already closed its deli section and let a few staff go


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    #427
    TheVoodoo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭TheVoodoo


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    on the currently undeveloped side?

    applegreen in the farm has already closed its deli section and let a few staff go

    No, on the left side as you drive from Sallynoggin/Glenageary roundabout toward the farm. The side with houses/apts already.


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    #428
    Aard
    Registered Users Posts: 4,905 ✭✭✭Aard


    Slightly off topic, but when was it that Tesco Express opened in Ranelagh? I was in here today for the first time and it is tiny! Smaller than a lot of Spars/Centras.

    In case it hasn't been mentioned already, Lidl Ranelagh has opened up.


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    #429
    EricPraline
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭EricPraline


    Aard wrote: »
    Slightly off topic, but when was it that Tesco Express opened in Ranelagh? I was in here today for the first time and it is tiny! Smaller than a lot of Spars/Centras.

    In case it hasn't been mentioned already, Lidl Ranelagh has opened up.
    Yes, a considerable number of new businesses have opened in Ranelagh recently, including both the new Tesco Express and Lidl. The new BOI building that seemed to take an age to complete also looks open for business. Hard to think of anywhere else in Dublin (or further afield?) with such a demand for new retail units.


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    #430
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    I know this not really a business but the liabary in deansgrange has reopened after an extensive renovation looks nice must go in someday


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    #431
    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,798 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    MonkstownHoop wrote: »
    applegreen in the farm has already closed its deli section and let a few staff go

    The only deli that ever managed to burn a cheese toastie on me. Twice. In a row.


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    Bits_n_Bobs
    Registered Users Posts: 1,300 ✭✭✭Bits_n_Bobs


    MYOB wrote: »
    The only deli that ever managed to burn a cheese toastie on me. Twice. In a row.

    You my friend have led a charmed cheese toastie life!


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    #433
    MonkstownHoop
    Registered Users Posts: 3,196 ✭✭✭MonkstownHoop


    TheVoodoo wrote: »
    No, on the left side as you drive from Sallynoggin/Glenageary roundabout toward the farm. The side with houses/apts already.

    seen the notice yesterday alright


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    #434
    janja
    Registered Users Posts: 412 ✭✭janja


    Heard Mao is to open on Braemor Road where Spar has been for ages, its always been a newsagents, as long as I have been around anyway, it will be missed.


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    #435
    flowerpower12
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭flowerpower12


    New nail place "New York Nails" opening opposite Alex's newsagent on Georges St Dun Laoghaire.


    P.s. if anyone can find a link to the place for prices please let me know! Cheers


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    #436
    stehyl15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 598 ✭✭✭stehyl15


    An indian restaurant is opening in the old thai restaurant in cabinteely


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    #437
    Tabnabs
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,716 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tabnabs


    M&S to close in DL and Tallaght

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0807/466829-marks-and-spencer-job-losses/


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    #438
    fjon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭fjon


    Another empty shop in DL :(


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    #439
    Larbre34
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    Thats a very hard hit. Always seemed fairly busy to me. A high end shop, big staff compliment, good high street name that would have brought passing trade to the nearby shops. Dun Laoghaire is well and truly a retail black hole. Needs urgent action for rejuvenation from authorities and local interests.

    My sympathies are with are with the staff who delivered very good service, hope they get fixed up elsewhere


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    #440
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    That is a real body blow for Dun Laoghaire.

    Best wishes to all the staff there. M&S always have helpful and polite staff and DL was no exception.


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    #441
    gillapino
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    Tabnabs wrote: »
    M&S to close in DL and Tallaght

    http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0807/466829-marks-and-spencer-job-losses/

    Noooooo! Guess i'll be heading to Dundrum in future.


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    #442
    Dubl07
    Registered Users Posts: 1,801 ✭✭✭Dubl07


    gillapino wrote: »
    Noooooo! Guess i'll be heading to Dundrum in future.

    Don't forget the Frascati centre in Blackrock. Miles easier to shop in than Dun Laoghaire. Car parking right outside the door.


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    #443
    Synode
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    Superquinn to rebrand as SuperValue is a bit of a surprise.


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    #444
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    I wonder what steps the council are taking to try and persuade M&S to change their minds.


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    #445
    zagmund
    Registered Users Posts: 2,501 ✭✭✭zagmund


    Synode wrote: »
    Superquinn to rebrand as SuperValue is a bit of a surprise.

    It's the end of the world as we know it. Supervalu (do they use the 'e' at the end?) sausages just does *not* have the same ring to it as superquinn sausages.

    On the M&S front, this is definitely a blow for DL. I may be over generalising here, but this strikes (struck) me as one of the only recent big investments in the area in a while and as near as you can get to a main street anchor tenant. If Pennys pull out then the place will be entirely sunk.

    z


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    #446
    fjon
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    zagmund wrote: »
    It's the end of the world as we know it. Supervalu (do they use the 'e' at the end?) sausages just does *not* have the same ring to it as superquinn sausages.

    On the M&S front, this is definitely a blow for DL. I may be over generalising here, but this strikes (struck) me as one of the only recent big investments in the area in a while and as near as you can get to a main street anchor tenant. If Pennys pull out then the place will be entirely sunk.

    z

    The M&S store is hardly recent though - it has been there for at least 5 years I think?
    Bottom line is the store was unprofitable. Not sure there's much the council can do - if they don't get enough customers walking past they can't get enough money.


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    #447
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    fjon wrote: »
    The M&S store is hardly recent though - it has been there for at least 5 years I think?
    Bottom line is the store was unprofitable. Not sure there's much the council can do - if they don't get enough customers walking past they can't get enough money.

    I would suggest rent and rates are the stores biggest costs, the council can help with at least one of these.


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    #448
    davej
    Registered Users Posts: 1,186 ✭✭✭davej


    M&S closing in DL is a real shame :(
    I'm a regular customer there and to me it always seemed pretty busy. I'm guessing they have relatively high staff costs. It's a tricky one to manage because they only seem to get really busy in fits and spurts but still need to have the extra staff on duty to cover these peaks.

    davej


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    #449
    Larbre34
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    It must be the rents in the case of M&S Dun Laoghaire. The rates are the same for all shops relatively speaking, but the rents vary a lot, evidenced by the fact that a lot of small business shops have opened up.

    M&S opened up in 2003, and are now saying the store is unprofitable, though clearly its busy. They probably bought into a lease at a high level and now it exceeds any revenue the store is making.


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    #450
    fjon
    Registered Users Posts: 2,084 ✭✭✭fjon


    I've very occasionally seen it busy in there, but mostly it there have been around 3 other people whenever I visited.

    I know most blame the council for the rent and the parking rates, but I think a bigger factor is the lack of footfall. M&S was profitable for a good few years until DL turned into the ghost town it is now.

    I was talking briefly to the owner of the now closed Readers shop. His closure had nothing at all to do with rent, he simply got less and less customers in the last 3 or 4 years.


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    #451
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    Larbre34 wrote: »
    It must be the rents in the case of M&S Dun Laoghaire. The rates are the same for all shops relatively speaking, but the rents vary a lot, evidenced by the fact that a lot of small business shops have opened up.

    M&S opened up in 2003, and are now saying the store is unprofitable, though clearly its busy. They probably bought into a lease at a high level and now it exceeds any revenue the store is making.

    If they opened in 2003 then their lease is probably up for renewal and the turnover of the store just isn't worth it.

    With the continuance of the dart covering scheme and the New library, I wonder if the council plan to just ignore George's street in the hope it might just go away.


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