Shops/Businesses opening/closing INFO thread

what_traffic

m17 wrote: »

Harvey Norman site knocknacarra 18/02/19

Wonder will it use the existing underground car parking entrance at the Gateway Retail Park? Or is a new entrance been created?

Prominent_Dawg

Anyone know what’s going into Footlocker

smurf492

what_traffic wrote:

Wonder will it use the existing underground car parking entrance at the Gateway Retail Park? Or is a new entrance been created?

Hoping they extend and add a new underground entrance closer to the school. The layout of the existing underground entrance is terrible

tinofapples

Prominent_Dawg wrote:

Anyone know what’s going into Footlocker

Sketchers I heard.

what_traffic

smurf492 wrote: »

Hoping they extend and add a new underground entrance closer to the school. The layout of the existing underground entrance is terrible

Ya its pure daft.

Gadgetman496

what_traffic wrote: »

Ya its pure daft.

Yep, you have to traverse the entire overground car park to get to the underground entrance!

what_traffic

smurf492 wrote: »

Hoping they extend and add a new underground entrance closer to the school. The layout of the existing underground entrance is terrible

They are adding a second entrance - directly onto the road.
https://geo.galwaycity.ie/ePlan5/AppFileRefDetails/17158/0
116 Bike Parking Spaces, 129 Basement Car Parking Spaces 22 surface car parking spaces (majority of surface are disabled parking spaces)

https://plan.galwaycity.ie/VirtualViewerNetHTML5/index.html?documentId=17158_DRAWINGS
page 6 shows this

m17

Headlines newsagents are gone in the corrib shopping centre after 27 years xl newsagents are taking over

jenno86

m17 wrote: »

Headlines newsagents are gone in the corrib shopping centre after 27 years xl newsagents are taking over

Happy days?

m17

m17 wrote: »

Headlines newsagents are gone in the corrib shopping centre after 27 years xl newsagents are taking over

I was sort of wondering how long they would last after happy days going (not that their connected just newsagents that are around for years).

I haven’t bought anything there (or in happy days) for many many years but at one time I spent hours in both reading and buying car magazines.

Goldenjohn

Tilikum17 wrote: »

American golf.

I’ll stick with Declan in Golfstyle myself.

Looks like most people stuck with Declan....shop closed with contact details for belfast

ronnie3585

Goldenjohn wrote: »

Looks like most people stuck with Declan....shop closed with contact details for belfast

Jaysus, that was quick!

cfeeneyinterior

Looks like Mothercare will be closing or moving at the Eyre Sq Centre from July... "Available to move in: Monday 1st July 2019"
Rent €185000 per year,
Service Charges: €37,939 net p.a.
Insurance Charges: €3,510 (2018 annual fee)
Commercial Rates: €35,515

Wow that's a lot of expenses before you sell something

https://www.daft.ie/galway/commercial-property-for-rent/retail-units-for-rent/unit-122-123-eyre-square-shopping-centre-galway-city-galway-795001/

Gadgetman496

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Looks like Mothercare will be closing or moving at the Eyre Sq Centre from July... "Available to move in: Monday 1st July 2019"
Rent €185000 per year,
Service Charges: €37,939 net p.a.
Insurance Charges: €3,510 (2018 annual fee)
Commercial Rates: €35,515

Wow that's a lot of expenses before you sell something

https://www.daft.ie/galway/commercial-property-for-rent/retail-units-for-rent/unit-122-123-eyre-square-shopping-centre-galway-city-galway-795001/

So you'd need to make a profit of over a quarter of a million just to cover the cost of the premises :eek:

No wonder retail is struggling so much.

xckjoo

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

Looks like Mothercare will be closing or moving at the Eyre Sq Centre from July... "Available to move in: Monday 1st July 2019"
Rent €185000 per year,
Service Charges: €37,939 net p.a.
Insurance Charges: €3,510 (2018 annual fee)
Commercial Rates: €35,515

Wow that's a lot of expenses before you sell something

https://www.daft.ie/galway/commercial-property-for-rent/retail-units-for-rent/unit-122-123-eyre-square-shopping-centre-galway-city-galway-795001/

Jesus. Rates and Service Charges? They'd want to be carrying you to work on a golden throne.

beardybrewer

Sadly it means only corporate conglomerates can make a go in a space like that which doesn't even have an attractive location tucked downstairs. It would be suicide for a new local business to take on that debt.

xckjoo

beardybrewer wrote: »

Sadly it means only corporate conglomerates can make a go in a space like that which doesn't even have an attractive location tucked downstairs. It would be suicide for a new local business to take on that debt.

Yup. Until we have all the same shops as every other city, which sell the exact same stuff you can order online from their parent company website for less money. Flawless plan. We'll all be rich yet lads :pac:

brutes1

beardybrewer wrote: »

Sadly it means only corporate conglomerates can make a go in a space like that which doesn't even have an attractive location tucked downstairs. It would be suicide for a new local business to take on that debt.

And not even Mothercare can make it work.

I reckon a lot of these units will be merged into a couple of megaunits on the lower floors of ESC and Corbetts, only the biggest will survive eg Sportsdirect, H&M, Penneys etc

Mrs OBumble

brutes1 wrote: »

And not even Mothercare can make it work.

I reckon a lot of these units will be merged into a couple of megaunits on the lower floors of ESC and Corbetts, only the biggest will survive eg Sportsdirect, H&M, Penneys etc

Mothercare are advertising for staff still, possibly they are just moving somewhere better for them.

Jammyd

Mrs OBumble wrote: »

Mothercare are advertising for staff still, possibly they are just moving somewhere better for them.

They are opening a new flagship store which will be their biggest in Ireland out in Wellpark retail park.

ratracer

Jammyd wrote: »

They are opening a new flagship store which will be their biggest in Ireland out in Wellpark retail park.

I thought Lidl were going out there in Wellpark?

ben.schlomo

ratracer wrote: »

Jammyd wrote: »

They are opening a new flagship store which will be their biggest in Ireland out in Wellpark retail park.

I thought Lidl were going out there in Wellpark?

They are.

We'd need a source for the Mothercare comment. There are more empty units out there though,former Maplin one and one beside or a further one down.

cfeeneyinterior

ben.schlomo wrote: »

They are.

We'd need a source for the Mothercare comment. There are more empty units out there though,former Maplin one and one beside or a further one down.

It is for rent on daft.... they haven't closed yet but it says it will be available from July..... Pretty clear there no?
https://www.daft.ie/galway/commercial-property-for-rent/retail-units-for-rent/unit-122-123-eyre-square-shopping-centre-galway-city-galway-795001/

ben.schlomo

cfeeneyinterior wrote: »

ben.schlomo wrote: »

They are.

We'd need a source for the Mothercare comment. There are more empty units out there though,former Maplin one and one beside or a further one down.

It is for rent on daft.... they haven't closed yet but it says it will be available from July..... Pretty clear there no?
https://www.daft.ie/galway/commercial-property-for-rent/retail-units-for-rent/unit-122-123-eyre-square-shopping-centre-galway-city-galway-795001/

Read the one I responded to, not your post.

cfeeneyinterior

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Read the one I responded to, not your post.

Woops, sorry. That's good news so. I'd wonder what unit in wellpark though. Aren't dfs and lidl already going.in there....

Jammyd

ben.schlomo wrote: »

They are.

We'd need a source for the Mothercare comment. There are more empty units out there though,former Maplin one and one beside or a further one down.

Can’t provide a link as this was told to me by someone who works quite senior for that company, wellpark has been on the cards for years, you’ll have to trust it’s accurate I’m afraid 😊

GerardKeating

ratracer wrote: »

I thought Lidl were going out there in Wellpark?

LIDL are going into the old PC World Unit, but there are 3/4 empty units in Wellpark

beardybrewer

GerardKeating wrote: »

LIDL are going into the old PC World Unit, but there are 3/4 empty units in Wellpark

That makes sense except for the parking. I'm well aware that many fight it out for a surface spot but we tend to always go underground. What surprised me last year was certain days nearly every last space underground was full. So I wonder what a big weekly shop would look like being that there's no underground entrance adjacent to the old PC World store and I'm not sure if the one by Maplin can lock the trolley wheels in place like knocknacarra dunnes (not rahoon).

Eeden

beardybrewer wrote: »

That makes sense except for the parking. I'm well aware that many fight it out for a surface spot but we tend to always go underground. What surprised me last year was certain days nearly every last space underground was full. So I wonder what a big weekly shop would look like being that there's no underground entrance adjacent to the old PC World store and I'm not sure if the one by Maplin can lock the trolley wheels in place like knocknacarra dunnes (not rahoon).

Lidl have proposed adding a lift as part of the planning application.

flazio

I wonder if it's possible to dig out some more spaces directly under the Woodies side of the carpark?