Dundrum Town Centre

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Dundrum Town Centre is a shopping centre located in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. It is built on the site of the defunct Pye television factory. The centre is the fourth major out-of-town shopping centre to be built in Dublin (after The Square, Tallaght; Blanchardstown Shopping Centre, and Liffey Valley Shopping Centre). It is the largest shopping centre in Ireland. It consumes 13 MW of power, this is nearly a 6th of the output of Ardnacrusha power plant (86 MW). Dundrum town centre has over 160 shops with more than 80,000m² of floor space.

1 Phases and Milestone Dates
2 Tenants
3 Future
4 External links

[edit] Phases and Milestone Dates

The second phase of the centre opened in September 2005. On 23 September 2005 the first Irish branch of Harvey Nichols opened. This is the anchor for a "fashion district". A cinema - Movies@Dundrum opened on 30 September 2005. A third phase included the addition of more retail units, several restaurants, a theatre (The Mill Theatre), a health centre and apartments.

[edit] Tenants

Anchor tenants at the centre are Tesco Ireland (replacing a Tesco-owned Super Crazy Prices outlet which previously occupied part of the site), Marks and Spencer, House of Fraser, Next, Harvey Nichols, Penney's, and the first Irish branch of Hennes & Mauritz (H&M). The first Irish branch of Starbucks Coffee (aside from Belfast, Coleraine and concessions at Dublin City University and Cork Airport) is located in the centre, as well as branches of McDonald's, KFC, Eddie Rockets and Pizza Hut. Tesco also operate a petrol station on site.

One major disincentive to using the centre is that unlike its three major rivals, parking is not free. This was a condition of the centre's planning permission - to prevent people using the centre as a Park and Ride site as it is adjacent to the Luas Green Line. As an incentive for people to come to the centre, it has recently offered three hours' car parking for the price of one hour.

[edit] Future

The future of this centre is for future expansion to include more retail units, and an eventual spread to the site of the older shopping center. There are also plans to expand the centre to a size of 150,000m².