Point Village Shopping Centre

Great news. I assume it'll just be a Tesco Express but it will provide some activity and passive surveillance to that section of street particularly in the evenings.

Irish Times: "Dunnes must take steps to fit out its anchor store at Point Village, judge rules"

(Paywall alert)

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/retail-and-services/dunnes-must-take-steps-to-fit-out-its-anchor-store-at-point-village-judge-rules-1.4688842

Eddies is still on the list of retailers in various places on the shopping centre itself - Salad Box was removed. Its also still on Eddies site

The Beckett Locke is serving non-guests now but there's still limited capacity for sit down food particularly earlier in the week.

Latest on Dunnes Stores Saga fom the Courts. Looks very much like Dunnes know they have no case but are prepared to spend money in order to drag out their eventual store opening in the Point Village. Summer 2022 looks a decent bet .

Dunnes gets stay on fitting out Point Village anchor store

Fit-out was originally due five years ago

about 20 hours ago

Mr Justice David Barniville earlier this month granted Point Village Development Ltd an order that the supermarket chain fit out a long-awaited anchor store in Dublin’s docklands. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill

Dunnes Stores has been given a limited stay on a High Court order that it fit out a long-awaited anchor store in the Point Village in Dublin’s docklands.

Five years after a deadline passed requiring Dunnes to fit it out, Mr Justice David Barniville earlier this month granted Point Village Development Ltd (PVD) an order that the supermarket chain do the work.

On Wednesday, Dunnes was granted a limited stay in relation to fit-out pending appeal of the High Court decision but refused a stay on the decision related to other technical and administrative requirements to preparing the store for opening.

Michael Collins SC, for PVD, urged Mr Justice Barniville not to grant a stay saying Dunnes had not identified any substantial grounds for an appeal.

Dunnes had run points bordering on the unarguable and they had delayed the process in a number of challenges and appeals over the years in their instructions to their lawyer, Martin Hayden SC, who with “his characteristic anarchic brilliance” had succeeded in delaying the project for 10 years, he said.

No arguable point of appeal had been identified and it would be entirely contrary to the justice of the case to grant a stay, he said.

Mr Hayden, in reply, thanked Mr Collins “for the promo and I will forward the bank draft in due course”. He disputed Mr Collins’s suggestion that Dunnes had lost in most of its cases and said “we are not ahead on numbers but not that far behind”.

Substantial costs

The costs of fitting out the store is substantial and there was fundamentally a disagreement on interpretation [of the contract with PVD] here which, while the High Court had emphatically rejected the Dunnes’ view, the appeal court may or may not say it is incorrect, he said.

Even if the court was not prepared to grant a stay on all the preparatory work, he asked there at least be a stay on the fit-out element.

Mr Justice Barniville said Dunnes is entitled to appeal and the appeal itself does not operate as a stay.

It was not immediately obvious what the grounds of appeal are but Dunnes are entitled to ventilate its arguments in the Court of Appeal where the judge expected the case would get an early hearing date.

He was prepared to grant a stay until the case comes before the Court of Appeal for directions on how the appeal should proceed. Arguments as to a further stay could be made before that court.

He also awarded the costs of the case to PVD.

Dunnes need to open having them open i'm sure it'll push others to invest in the area which is long over due

Fresh has also started fitout, but both it and the Spencer Dock Tesco unit are convenience stores with notions (of being posh and of being a full supermarket respectively)

Thats great to have Camile open also i've some inside news from someone that works in Tesco customer service i asked about possible opening date for the new store they said they've been told fit out of the new store is due to begin in early 2022 with a spring 2022 opening date all going well :)

Tesco Express has notions of being a supermarket. They're basically full price convenience stores with a loyalty card!

Interesting news regarding Glenveagh Developments of Castlefores Site

https://www.independent.ie/business/australian-super-pension-backs-deal-for-700-apartments-in-dublin-docks-41057415.html

Business Post two weeks ago confirmed Tesco have leased the Spencer Dock corner unit for 20 years. Think the barbers has finally opened near the Mayson.

Is that the one opposite Boca?

Tesco seem to be only starting the fit out for their unit in Spencer Dock black bags gone up on the windows and planning permissions signs gone from the window, Fresh seem to have only begun also lads in the unit yesterday although not much done i'd say they are only there 2/3 weeks at best. The Samuel hotel also getting ready to open which will bring plenty of more life to the area for the summer season and also have more around the area in winter also. It is great to see the area come alive again.

Fresh fitout has been onsite for a few weeks.

The signs down there have the names of a hairdresser (dry and fly) and a coffee place up which haven't yet opened

The Hairdresser opening beside the barbers, coffee place think is apart of fresh while rumor has is it Starbucks may move into the glass box

I went for a wander inside The Samuel and the bar/restaurant is in the basement ...not exactly inviting for an afternoon drink