Roxboro Shopping Centre to meet Mr. Wrecking Ball

4 years later and it still stands lol

dont exagurate about big black tunnels!!! what age are you 4. and as for the bank its still ope. The pharmacy was always there it just has a refit

i love tesco. woo paul fleming

Does anyone remember when Crazy prices first opened and they put on a free bus up to Southill?........all the guys would come out of the steering wheel and get the free bus up home.....gas times by

I used to work in Crazy Prices, and I also remember five star.
I will be sad to see all that go. but even though I don't live in the city anymore I can see a massive change in the last 12 years and I suppose all things come to an end.
I lived in Janesboro until I was 22 and i loved it there. a lot of great memories.

Heatmerchants are open to the public..sound bunch of lads in that particular outlet too.

I thought Heatmerchants were trade only?

Maybe it is just me, but the south side of town seemed to done fairly alright down through the years, Krups, Galvone Industrial Estate, shopping centre including a cinema (as stated perviously) and two swimming pools a lot more than other parts of the city had at the time.

I heard they are building social housing there?

Anybody got any idea what is going in that site?

YeahBank of Ireland is still there!

If you take the TBA site, Heatmerchants, statoil/supermacs and the Roxboro SC and knock em all you have one big piece of land!

I'd like to see aparments there instead of TBA and Heatmerchants!
As long as they had nice residents and not "tennents"

TBA as it is, is one eye sore

just an after thought do ye ever meet up face to face all these bloggers would be nice idea for a get together sometime in the future

ha i remember five star alright and do ye remember a ;ittle bakery in the unit next to that called LOVIN OVIN god that was almost thirty years ago because they used to play the BAY CITY ROLLERS constantly on the tannoy in five star BYE BYE BABY was the one haha

sad

It would be great if you are right, the likes of Heatmerchants could do alot more trade to the every day shopper if it had a proper layout, it's mostly tradepeople using it, that den where Cash & Carry was is a right dive.

the wholegalvone industrial estate will be leveled, and turned into a similar thing that is up the othe rend of the childers road where the 24hour dunnes is. and the new guard station will be there, talk of a health centre aswell.

Maybe they meant Krups site and not Fulflex.

Geraldine

I'd not jump the gun and see what's going to happen elsewhere, this land never get planning permission for houses, especially if residents voice their concerns.

Pot Black was the name of that snooker hall and video arcade. More like a boxing ring than an arcade....there was always trouble up there. And just for the record the Bank of Ireland is still up and running in the shopping centre.

Crazy Prices turns to Crazy Planning.

The city is being turned into one gigantic sprawl of Apatrment blocks and housing ringed by the fat-cat County Council's doughnut of Shopping Centres and Retail Parks.
Result, more housing units without a decent centre for shopping or activity....or at best Hobson's choice. Tesco, moving to Fulflex, ffs that's in the middle of an industrial estate and not too far away from the you-know-who's up the road. I doubt it somehow. They'll take the money and run to Castletroy or some other one of our booming outside-the-city-limits suburbs. Very handy for those of us trying NOT to clog up the roads.

PS,..... RR, that cinema was Movieland. Very mod for it's day....2 screens, considering we had only one TV channel. luxury!!!!!

There was even a cinema there when I was a lad.It was later turned into a snooker hall/arcade.

I can't picture a new complex in an industrial estate?

I'm absolutely devastated by this news. I live in Janesboro, in a nice spot at the back of Tesco's. The reason I bought my house 8 years ago was that it was a cul de sac with no space for more house's to be built near me. How wrong was I. Not only are they building houses but apartments too. I will be putting my house up for sale as soon as is possible.

^vegetable shop.

"Fulflex site"

Surely the business person that said this was talking about their own premises, hardly putting Unicare or the Vegetable down there? It was unclear in the Post

I thought they would get rid of the whole thing as far as TBA and put in proper units, does this mean they just want to throw houses up everywhere, including Hogan park? Many people in these areas don't drive, what are they going to do?

The Quality hotel will breath a sigh of relief. I understand they were hinting to overseas guests that they would get "better choice" by going into town and not actually across to Supermacs and the Steering Wheel for a night out. Of course they couldn't say that the area wasn't "tourist friendly" without highlighting the insanity of their own location choice. The Quality group tried to get ahead of the curve on their choice of site for Limerick and for a long time it looked like the curve would never reach them.

five star, followed by quinsworth, followed by crazy prices, followed by tesco ireland.

There used to be a payphone down one of the dark corridors that used to give free phonecalls.

Anyone remember the name of the first supermarket to anchor that center no prizes and be careful of showing your age heh heh *****

was it liptons supermarket ? 1973/1974