Liffey Valley
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Liffey Valley Shopping Centre is a
Tenants
Anchor tenants at the centre are Ireland's largest
An associated retail park, The Retail Park, Liffey Valley, is nearby, with several warehouse-style stores, these include; McDonald's, MaxiZoo, Carpetright, The Range, Party City & Currys [citation needed]
Renovations
In February 2015, Liffey Valley announced that it was to begin a €26 million expansion of the shopping centre.
The construction of the Penneys Store marked the first new store opening in a decade, leading the branch at Liffey Valley to be more modernized, incorporating an
In April 2020 property group Hines submitted a €135 million plan for a major extension to the Liffey Valley Centre in Dublin. The mixed leisure, entertainment and retail extension will include a large public plaza, and creating a new east-west street at the centre. There will also be two large retail units on either side of the plaza.[7]
A new TK Maxx has been built beside the new entrance beside Penneys and opened in 2021.[8]
Transport
Liffey Valley Shopping Centre is served by Dublin Bus routes C1, C2, C3, C4, C5, C6, P29, L53, X25, X26, X27, X28, X30, X31, X32, 26, G2, and Go-Ahead Ireland routes L51, S4, W2 and W4.
On the 19th of February 2023, a brand new "Bus Plaza" opened serving routes G2, 26, 76, 76a, L51 and L53. It is located 100 feet from the front entrance of the shopping centre and is part of the BusConnects programme.[9]
Note that the C-spine routes, P29, X routes and W4 do not operate to the shopping centre building, but rather to stops on the N4 dual carriageway which is linked to the shopping centre via a footbridge.
Planning impropriety
For two decades an actual "town centre" had been planned in a central location to serve the Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown areas. But Liffey Valley was built to the northeastern extremity of the area it was originally planned to serve. This meant, as noted by Jerry Barnes, chairman of the Royal Town Planning Institute, that the residents of Lucan, Clondalkin and Palmerstown "have been left for 20 years without an appropriately centrally located town centre which is easily accessible to all. This has very serious long-term implications for thousands of people".[10]
Thirty Dublin councillors were investigated by the
References
- Irish Times. 23 September 1998.
- ^ "We Are Expanding". Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.
- ^ "Restaurants and Facilities". Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.
- ^ Irish Times. 24 February 2015.
- ^ "The queue for the opening of the new Penneys in Liffey Valley this morning was bonkers".
- ^ "Planning refused for extension to Liffey Valley centre".
- ^ Deegan, Gordon. "Hines lodges €135m expansion plan for Liffey Valley". The Irish Times. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
- ^ "Liffey Valley announce opening of long-awaited store". FM104. 26 July 2021. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
- ^ Collins, Proinsias (20 February 2023). "New €20m BusConnects Bus Plaza opens at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre". Transport for Ireland. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
- ^ McDonald, Frank (27 March 2012). "Terrible legacy of corrupt Quarryvale rezoning". The Irish Times.
- ^ Wade, Jennifer (22 March 2012). "Mahon: The verdict on councillors involved in Quarryvale". TheJournal.ie.