LATEST DUBLIN CITY NEWS

• “Proposed changes to retail guidelines will cost jobs, compromise main streets and cause more dereliction - An Taisce”

  03-01-2012

  Jobs will be lost and main streets will suffer if Forfas gets its way on Retail Planning  according to a recent An Taisce  Press Release

• Rejuvenating Dublin's Tourism Product

  23-12-2011

  Dublin City Business Association commissioned Jerome Casey and Felim O’Rourke to undertake a study of tourism in Dublin and to make least-cost recommendations for its rejuvenation. The World Tourism Organisation concluded (in relation to Ireland) that "there appears to be very little correlation between marketing spending by National Tourism Organisations and international arrivals". 
  

  Within Ireland, there is a mismatch between the Irish tourism market and the public resources devoted to it. 

  33 existing tourist attractions in Dublin were reviewed, and low-cost initiatives suggested for their improvement.

  From 2000 – 2010 Ireland’s share of world tourism visitors has fallen sharply. In 2004, Ireland changed from being a destination country for incoming tourists to an origin country for Irish, outgoing tourists.

  Dublin must move from passive approval of tourist activities to an active development of tourism as a priority industry in regenerating the city’s economy. 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

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Arnotts to Build €750 Million New Shopping Centre

Wednesday the 2nd of April 2008

"The Northern Quarter" will carve the future for the ever evolving history of the city. The Northern Quarter will be a brand new mixed use urban development in the heart of traditional Dublin bounded by Henry Street, O'Connell Street, Abbey Street and Liffey Street, it includes a mix of residential, retail, leisure and hotel/spa elements. Dublin City Council has approved the department stores plan on the 5.5 acre site.

The new quarter will include 47 shops, 14 cafés, restaurants and bars, 175 apartments and a 149 bedroom four star hotel behind the former Independent Newspapers buildings on Middle Abbey Street. Over the next six years the Northern Quarter will drastically transform north-central Dublin, replacing predominantly retail use with a diverse area where people can live, shop, eat, stay, relax and work.

At the heart of the scheme will be a new plaza located between Henry Street and Middle Abbey Street, the Arnotts store will have a new entrance onto this public square. Prince's Street North will be extended and redeveloped as a prime shopping street, and a new pedestrian route is set to be developed from Henry Street, through the existing GPO arcade and the extended Prince's Street to Abbey Street to Middle Abbey Street. The buildings will range in height from 3 to 12 storeys with a 15 storey tower at the corner of Abbey Street and Liffey Street. More than 600 car parking spaces will also be provided.

Arnotts chairman Richard Nesbitt said the project would "write the next chapter in the evolving history of Dublin City." Dublin City Centre has evolved primarily as a retail zone, which results in much of the retail quarter becoming deserted in the evening. The planned hotel and spa will help to reverse this trend, helping to bring in new life, vibrancy and energy into this area of the city. This will result in North Central Dublin becoming a living breathing community once again. The plan is to create a city that will shift seamlessly from office hours to nightlife.

Dublin's history and heritage stretches back over a thousand years, with the plans for the Northern Quarter becoming an excellent starting point to bring Dublin into its next millennium.