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DUNDRUM TOWN CENTRE has the all-clear to scrap a number of retail units in an “underperforming” wing of the mall to create a new restaurant quarter.
The new wing of eateries will be located across multiple levels of the existing building facing Pembroke Square.
The area of the shopping centre already houses a number of food outlets, including Jamie’s Italian, Nandos and Five Guys.
Toy shop Hamleys was also located in one of the units due to be redeveloped before it closed its “no longer viable” Dundrum store earlier this summer.
Plans to redevelop the retail district were lodged earlier this year, with Dundrum Retail Partnership Limited requesting permission from the council to change the permitted use of several units from retail to restaurants.
Planning documents filed by the operators of the shopping centre said the building is in need of a revamp to ensure Dundrum Town Centre remains “best in class in an ever-changing retail environment”.
The firm wants to “move the focus from a struggling retail offer into a destination food, beverage and leisure offer”.
“The key aim of this proposal is to bring a more-focused food and beverage offer to the ‘Pembroke district’ which is currently underperforming and underutilised,” the planning application stated.
According to Dundrum’s website, some units in line to be developed house businesses such as Bella Baby, Gant and Miss Ali Stage School.
A spokesman for the co-owner of Dundrum Town Centre, property giant Hammerson, told Fora: “Hammerson is working closely with the small number of existing tenants affected, to plan for these alterations.”
Works planned
As part of the project, the ground floor will remain largely untouched, apart from some minor alterations to the awnings at Jamie’s Italian restaurant.
On the upper levels, the façade of ‘building 13′ at the shopping centre will be renovated and internal changes will be made to four existing retail units on level one.
This remodelled space, totalling 1,352 sq m, will be turned into four new restaurants and a new 1,223 sq m bar. A separate leisure unit will be created on the mezzanine level above.
Some changes will also be made to the basement to create storage areas for the restaurants, which will result in the loss of nine car parking spaces .
The proposed works by Dundrum Town Centre also includes changes in the ‘Pembroke district’, including new outdoor seating areas for restaurant use.
Unused quarter
The approval for the new restaurant units by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council has come less than a month after a development in Pembroke Square was given the all-clear.
The separate project involves the creation of a new food hall, restaurant and revamped outdoor space. Upmarket food retailer Fallon & Byrne has already been lined up as a tenant for the site.
Property giant Hammerson previously said that the new Fallon & Byrne outlet will “reinvigorate a currently underutilised part of the centre”.
The plans for the new food and drinks quarter at Dundrum are similar to another Hammerson project underway at Pavilions Shopping Centre in Swords.
The UK-based property firm, which entered the Irish market in 2015, plans to create a new €3.3 million restaurant development later this year at the north Dublin shopping centre.
Earlier this year, the firm released figures that showed footfall was down by 3% in its Irish portfolio in the first half of the year.
Hammerson noted that the decrease in footfall at its locations was due to Ireland being “particularly badly hit” by Storm Emma in late February and early March.
Written by Killian Woods and posted on Fora.ie
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Young men who won’t expose their arses in public? A rare breed of Irishman indeed . They don’t make them like that any more ………. :)
William wallace: its all for nothing if we dont have freedom.
If he though the Irish were smart asses, I wonder what he thought about the Jews…..oh wait……
Great film
Timely article given the impending referendum. What would William do these days?
I seem to remember a huge sense of disappointment, that Mel Gibson didn’t mention the boys from the defence forces, while doing his “thank you” when he received his Oscar.
My good friend Jason Mckevitt is the very lad in the article. Grand head of hair on you Jay
Cheers Buddy, That clip has brought back some memories, especially regarding my Hair…..Mel Gibson was actually a genuine guy….no airs or graces Hollywood stuff, he would talk to us the same as his co-stars and production team, Still a smartass none the less !!!!!!!
Genius film maker.
@Thomas, calling Mel Gibson a “Genius Film Maker” probably puts you in a very small minority group. A lot of things spr
….spring to mind, when he’s mentioned but “Genius” is not one of them ….
Braveheart, The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto are all film masterpieces. He is a great director.
It’s my Island
That movie also spawned the chat-up line that was most used by irish male students on foreign female students for a couple of years… Every single on them claimed to have been an extra. My landlord in first year in college was working for the irish film board when they granted the funding for brave heart so I heard about it coming to Ireland for filming months before they arrived.
I’d say you’re great craic.
What chat up line. “You bled for wallace now bleed for me”?
Very good!!!
Overrated and basically fictional version of history. So completely irrelevant to the independence debate.
Clown
Alan, about sums it up. Great Scottish hero, played by an Australian and filmed in Ireland. Obviously no suitable scenery in Scotland. Decent film but hardly a history lesson.
Indeed, it’s actually considered one of the most historically inaccurate films ever made.
Er, I’d say that dubious honour would fall to Neil Jordan’s version of “Michael Collins”, Ben.
You don’t speak Latin?
Yeah well Mel is a girl’s name.
The Irish Army is a good army They do a great job at peace keeping for the UN, but a lot of respect is lost when we see them being extras in films and minding the banks money
The banks pay them to do it. It’s not free service afaik.
Soldiers have been extras in films for years and years. There was a time their pay was total shit and so they’d do it for a weekend away on the piss and a bit of craic. I wouldn’t begrudge it to them.
That’s a bit like saying nurses lose a lot of respect when they take a coffee break.
Jack those extras were fca (reserves)
There’s always one….
They kept him in fags anyway.
He is just a drunk lads take no notice of him
Why should I care what an alcoholic, wife-beating myth peddler has to say?
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