New Blanchardstown Shopping Center 2021 Updates?

Seve OB will be apoplectic.

Thats precisely the point though isn't it, we don't have the luxury of space or sustainability to build endlessly the exact design of houses you are talking about.

Site notice up where River Island is that their unit and the unit next door (Yours Clothing) are amalgamating. Possibly a bigger RI?

Interesting selection there.

Guess we had a compu B which was as close to an actual apple shop as Ireland has had in long and many a year ( was there only ever one? On grafton street?)

target, Walmart , would fit in alright I’m sure but isn’t Costco a big warehouse job?

I would have liked to seen them open up top floor in Debenhams, would have made a great location for food hall along with a number of smaller shops

Keeping with your American dream, I would like a Dicks Sporting Goods, McGuirks is good, but open it up into Halfords and the sofa place and take inspiration from the PGA tour superstore and make a really great golf shop. Expand it more, run social evenings in it, simulator leagues, club nights, social events… be class.

realistically i would settle for a screw fix, Blanch Centre not great, but Coolmine ind est be ideal spot

My votes for American places over here are Cafe Zupas and Jimmy Johns, when I'm in Salt Lake City they are always in the top 5 lunch destinations.

I'd love to have a small indo baker in the area.

It's gone, closed in March 2017. Rituals Cosmetics is in that unit now (facing Boots).

The laws relating to electronic items needing to be safe when resold by any form of business means that Goodwill US style electronics sections cannot happen here, ever.

Physical PC parts shops basically don't exist anymore, ever.

Most US chains you mentioned are never going to come to Ireland, e.g. Walmart failed in the UK already.

Fnac is a more realistic consumer electronics (and books/DVDs/CDs/records) retailer to look for really.

Kays was Bewleys, but Bewleys have exited that market entirely. Wetherspoons do pub food, there's no need for another albeit a better one would be an improvement.

Remember Borders Books from USA tried and failed here too. Although I think that suffered globally from the decline in book/music physical sales generally. Used to love that shop with the Starbucks upstairs.

Having to buy magazines from your competitors for a start didn't help

Mannings?

I remember it. My wife didn’t. New look now

I find the big league shopping malls like Blanch will anymore rarely house businesses that offer artisan or bespoke type produce or products as the rents are often only high enough for chainstores to afford. You'll most likely see those types of shops in village main streets or even farmers markets etc.

Even something like Gleesons butchers or Mannings is almost an anomaly in Blanchardstown SC where international chains like Mango or Hollister are the more likely tenants anymore. I know when Blanch first opened, it had more independent or local style traders but the chains eventually outbid thenm at lease renewal time over the years. As major shopping centres are basically real estate investment fund vehicles, the highest bidder is all the investors care about.

While not a shop, you can get sourdough bread and some pastries delivered from a bakery in the area: https://sourdoughandbeyond.com/

They do weekly standing orders and now offer collections from Elmhurst Cottage Farm, beside Albert College Park which is just south of DCU.