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whats going to happen to shopping centre opposite supermacs in athlone

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    #62
    L.Jenkins
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,240 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Looks like they could be doing something with the place and would be great to see someone make use of the place.


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    #63
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    demanufactured wrote: »
    Maybe seamy hayes is gonna reopen music world and movie world....
    Maybe Quinnsworth are going to open a supermarket and Keenan's, Lifestyle Sports, Scotts Bakery and Blacoe Jewelers are opening stores there too.

    Seriously though I think the best move would be to knock the whole thing and build a carpark. I can't think of any better way to revitalise that part of town.


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    #64
    athlonelad
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭athlonelad


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    Maybe Quinnsworth are going to open a supermarket and Keenan's, Lifestyle Sports, Scotts Bakery and Blacoe Jewelers are opening stores there too.

    Seriously though I think the best move would be to knock the whole thing and build a carpark. I can't think of any better way to revitalise that part of town.
    Most of it is a carpark already! The whole left side of it is a multistorey carpark.


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    #65
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    athlonelad wrote: »
    Most of it is a carpark already! The whole left side of it is a multistorey carpark.
    I mean a big free open carpark. Did the multi-story carpark even get much use?


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    #66
    athlonelad
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭athlonelad


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    I mean a big free open carpark. Did the multi-story carpark even get much use?

    In its prime it did. Before golden island. Its not a public area so I dont see how it could be free parking.
    Multistorey is closed now AFAIK


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    #67
    JupiterKid
    Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    I remember the old Athlone shopping centre back in the 80s when it was the only shopping centre in the Midlands. There was a Quinnsworth and a number of other shops.

    When it opened in 1974 it, along with Dundalk SC were the only enclosed shopping centres outside of the cities. Architecturally - even for the 70s - it was an utter eyesore. It looked more like a 1930s factory than a 1970s shopping mall.

    At this stage it's probably best to demolish the structure and build something else on the site.


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    #68
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    It may need to revamped and cleaned up, i think for retail the building itself if fine as it is.


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    #69
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    Maybe Quinnsworth are going to open a supermarket and Keenan's, Lifestyle Sports, Scotts Bakery and Blacoe Jewelers are opening stores there too.

    apparently Dermot Fox is going to resurrect newsfare too.

    Mick Silke is stockpiling DVDs to reopen Movie World as we speak. Rumour has is it he was seen in Easons buying a whole pile of those postcard sized blank cards for the membership accounts.

    they're is also ongoing discussions with various international film distributors with the aim of putting a cinema on the roof which can't be accessed by wheelchair. Due to size constraints, cinema goers will be required to queue on the steps in the pi$$Ing rain.



    it's going to be like an Athlone retail version of The Expendables.

    The Sleeping Giants of Athlone commerce are awakening.


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    #70
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    I was trying to remember the name of the newsagents that was there. Also was McGorisk's the pharmacy that was located across from it at the corner?

    I only remember being in that cinema once when I was about 7 or 8, I think it was for The Flintstones movie or something. Don't remember much about it the place apart from the outside steps.


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    #71
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    Also was McGorisk's the pharmacy that was located across from it at the corner?
    .

    never knew which was mcsharry's or which was mcgorisk's! Still don't.


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    #72
    Nforce
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    SilverScreen wrote: »
    I mean a big free open carpark. Did the multi-story carpark even get much use?

    It made a great helipad!


    :pac:


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    #73
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    Nforce wrote: »
    It made a great helipad!


    :pac:
    That's probably the only reason it was built, so Texas Tom could land a helicoptor on it.


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    #74
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    mr_edge_to_you wrote: »
    they're is also ongoing discussions with various international film distributors with the aim of putting a cinema on the roof which can't be accessed by wheelchair. Due to size constraints, cinema goers will be required to queue on the steps in the pi$$Ing rain.

    I dont see people braving the weather for a movie, but if the weather was better around summer then maybe, i see this as a part-time sessional thing. More of a gimmick that will bring people from all around.

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rooftop-Cinema-Athlone/157460357779657


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    #75
    mr_edge_to_you
    Registered Users Posts: 3,111 ✭✭✭mr_edge_to_you


    ifeelill wrote: »
    I dont see people braving the weather for a movie, but if the weather was better around summer then maybe, i see this as a part-time sessional thing. More of a gimmick that will bring people from all around.

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rooftop-Cinema-Athlone/157460357779657


    no, maybe not!


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    #76
    cena
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    SilverScreen wrote: »
    I was trying to remember the name of the newsagents that was there. Also was McGorisk's the pharmacy that was located across from it at the corner?

    I only remember being in that cinema once when I was about 7 or 8, I think it was for The Flintstones movie or something. Don't remember much about it the place apart from the outside steps.

    I think it was called news fare. They moved to golden island but have since gone.

    That rooftop cinema has a facebook page

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rooftop-Cinema-Athlone/157460357779657


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    #77
    athlonelad
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    ifeelill wrote: »
    I dont see people braving the weather for a movie, but if the weather was better around summer then maybe, i see this as a part-time sessional thing. More of a gimmick that will bring people from all around.

    https://www.facebook.com/pages/Rooftop-Cinema-Athlone/157460357779657
    Is that page not a piss take?


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    #78
    veryangryman
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    athlonelad wrote: »
    Is that page not a piss take?

    Hope so. The imc is not busy enough that there is demand for another cinema


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    #79
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    athlonelad wrote: »
    Is that page not a piss take?

    I thought it was looking at it until i seen the previous post talking about it
    veryangryman wrote: »
    Hope so. The imc is not busy enough that there is demand for another cinema


    You must be the baldy IMC manager :pac::pac:


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    #80
    athlonelad
    Registered Users Posts: 443 ✭✭athlonelad


    ifeelill wrote: »
    I thought it was looking at it until i seen the previous post talking about it




    You must be the baldy IMC manager :pac::pac:
    Is he a very angry man too?


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    #81
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,574 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    ifeelill wrote: »
    I thought it was looking at it until i seen the previous post talking about it




    You must be the baldy IMC manager :pac::pac:
    No but my love for easy come easy go businesses died when the rayners bar got the same sort of daft takeovers where there was no demand.


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    #82
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    veryangryman wrote: »
    No but my love for easy come easy go businesses died when the rayners bar got the same sort of daft takeovers where there was no demand.

    There will only be a demand for a rooftop cinema when the weather is good which is a rare occasion.


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    #83
    charlieIRL
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 7,212 Mod ✭✭✭✭charlieIRL


    Nforce wrote: »
    It made a great helipad!


    :pac:

    hahaha, had forgot about that.

    I was talking to some of the shop owners in the area over the weekend and they have no idea what's going on in there.


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    #84
    ifeelill
    Registered Users Posts: 502 ✭✭✭ifeelill


    SilverScreen wrote: »
    Maybe Quinnsworth are going to open a supermarket


    WRONG! :pac::pac:

    End of the line for Superquinn

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/end-of-the-line-for-superquinn-all-stores-to-rebrand-29480998.html


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    #85
    SilverScreen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    ifeelill wrote: »
    WRONG! :pac::pac:

    End of the line for Superquinn

    http://www.independent.ie/business/irish/end-of-the-line-for-superquinn-all-stores-to-rebrand-29480998.html
    You misread my post.


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    #86
    L.Jenkins
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    See it's been given a bit of an external paint job. Wonder if it will be reopened?


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    #87
    demanufactured
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,756 ✭✭✭demanufactured


    Whatever about the ols shopping center..
    Got the steak sandwich across the road in supermacs this evening. ..fooking lovely it was.


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    #88
    finky1
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    atm banking is gone today also beware clambers are back


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    #89
    Rasmus
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    Is there an American-style diner in there now?


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    #90
    galait
    Closed Accounts Posts: 669 ✭✭✭galait


    Rasmus wrote: »
    Is there an American-style diner in there now?

    Even a Restaurant with a Michelin Star chef would not save the place , Wrecking ball required


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    #91
    Rasmus
    Registered Users Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Rasmus


    galait wrote: »
    Even a Restaurant with a Michelin Star chef would not save the place , Wrecking ball required

    Eh yeah, but has a diner gone in there?


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