Ikea's store plans given green light
Published: 10 November, 2006
North Dublin is becoming a hotbed of development activity following Fingal County Council's decision to grant permission for the 30,000 sq m Ikea store in north Ballymun. If there are no objections to An Bord Pleanala, Ikea says the new store could be open for trading by next summer.
Fingal County Council has attached 29 conditions, most of them relating to traffic management, as the planned new store is close to the already heavily congested M50 motorway. And the council is insisting on paid parking at the store, to subsidise deliveries for people using public transport to get to Ikea.
The second big development in this part of north Dublin is Bovale Developments' Charlestown shopping centre, at the N2/M50 interchange in Finglas, scheduled to open in autumn 2007.
Charlestown will have 17,000 sq m of retail space, including 24 double-height retail units ranging from 34 to 1,000 sq m along an internal T-shaped mall and two external malls, as well as 800 car-parking spaces, 285 apartments and a 12-storey signature building. Dunnes Stores has already signed up as the anchor tenant in 7,000 sq m and joint letting agents Hamilton Osborne King and NAI Mason Owen & Lyons are quoting rents of E592 psm.
Finally, in Ballymun, Treasury Holdings has plans for a substantial retail development.
