The English Market appreciation thread

[MerchantOfEnnis]

The city council should not be running shopping arcades.

Do they own it?

It looks like it needs a makeover at the very least.

Fairly sure they own it and it's managed/run by Lisney, at least in terms of lettings

 

[Stacky]

I've no idea tbh, the whole city center needs some radical rethinking but it isn't going to happen with the current crop in CCC.

For example a friend of mine was doing some work for the council earlier this year on a small very straight forward project, he said you would not believe how difficult it was to get decisions made on trivial things like colors they wanted walls painted etc took months and months with dozens of zoom calls to get simple answers.

Then it took him months to get paid after he fronted significant cash for materials etc. Never again would he work with them and he's not the only one.

If simple things like this take so much effort and nobody wants to make decisions how in gods name are important, necessary changes going to be implemented.

This lot are satisfied to do the minimum and our City rot.

They are a complete disaster.

They are almost impossible to contact.

They spend a lot of time in the canteen and they ignore the state of the city more or less.

 

[SumSpacer]

City Centre is over. It will eventually be left to either extremely high end designer stores, perhaps two or maybe three at best, and the rest will be discount retailers along with vape shops, bookies, chain pubs, the odd destination restaurant in the midst of hordes of coked out zombies drunken students and bewildered tourists dropped off by some paddywagon or equivalent at the English Market.

Meanwhile the city "planners" willbe at conferences in Utrecht and Barcelona trying to come up with new and exciting ways to encourage the 80% of commuters to the city centre who do not cycle or use public transport to visit Mahon Point, Blackpool Retail Park, Douglas, Wilton, and Bishopstown shopping centres to spend their hard earned money.

For more, see "Bus Connects."

 

[Crusty Ring]

City Centre is over. It will eventually be left to either extremely high end designer stores, perhaps two or maybe three at best, and the rest will be discount retailers along with vape shops, bookies, chain pubs, the odd destination restaurant in the midst of hordes of coked out zombies drunken students and bewildered tourists dropped off by some paddywagon or equivalent at the English Market.

Meanwhile the city "planners" willbe at conferences in Utrecht and Barcelona trying to come up with new and exciting ways to encourage the 80% of commuters to the city centre who do not cycle or use public transport to visit Mahon Point, Blackpool Retail Park, Douglas, Wilton, and Bishopstown shopping centres to spend their hard earned money.

For more, see "Bus Connects."

Some gobshite from the Greens called into my house last week about the bus connects as they are planning to take a strip of land from my park and take out loads of old trees that act as a barrier to the road to facilitate a bus lane.

Let’s just say he won’t be in a rush back to my house.

 

[jimmym]

Some gobshite from the Greens called into my house last week about the bus connects as they are planning to take a strip of land from my park and take out loads of old trees that act as a barrier to the road to facilitate a bus lane.

Let’s just say he won’t be in a rush back to my house.

Did he put you down as undecided,?

 

[Stacky]

City Centre is over. It will eventually be left to either extremely high end designer stores, perhaps two or maybe three at best, and the rest will be discount retailers along with vape shops, bookies, chain pubs, the odd destination restaurant in the midst of hordes of coked out zombies drunken students and bewildered tourists dropped off by some paddywagon or equivalent at the English Market.

Meanwhile the city "planners" willbe at conferences in Utrecht and Barcelona trying to come up with new and exciting ways to encourage the 80% of commuters to the city centre who do not cycle or use public transport to visit Mahon Point, Blackpool Retail Park, Douglas, Wilton, and Bishopstown shopping centres to spend their hard earned money.

For more, see "Bus Connects."

Indeed.

Just scrap public transport altogether.

 

[PussyinBoots]

City Centre is over. It will eventually be left to either extremely high end designer stores, perhaps two or maybe three at best, and the rest will be discount retailers along with vape shops, bookies, chain pubs, the odd destination restaurant in the midst of hordes of coked out zombies drunken students and bewildered tourists dropped off by some paddywagon or equivalent at the English Market.

Meanwhile the city "planners" willbe at conferences in Utrecht and Barcelona trying to come up with new and exciting ways to encourage the 80% of commuters to the city centre who do not cycle or use public transport to visit Mahon Point, Blackpool Retail Park, Douglas, Wilton, and Bishopstown shopping centres to spend their hard earned money.

For more, see "Bus Connects."

That's not fair.

 

[PussyinBoots]

Fairly sure they own it and it's managed/run by Lisney, at least in terms of lettings

Lisney? Disney more like it. Cause it seems to be run by a load of Mickey Mouses. (Mice)

 

[The High King]

In fact the city centre will become an entertainment venue more then a shopping venue.
That's not just here either.
I would envisage clothing and shoe shops, especially high end will survive.
Otherwise it will be mainly pubs clubs cafes and restaurants.
Currently the only reason I visit the city centre is to go to a gig or show and I usually make a day of it and go out for a meal followed by a few drinks afterwards.

 

[MerchantOfEnnis]

The Rave Cave is selling "Free Palestine" tshirts for €15 a pop if anyone is looking for an early Christmas present for the social activist in their life