🍏🍊 It’s the last day of trading at Dublin’s Fruit & Veg Market near Smithfield after 127 years 🍓🍍
It’ll close this afternoon for a €3 million redevelopment pic.twitter.com/iH2SZXuC83
— Stephen Murphy (@Stephen_Murphy5) August 23, 2019
Today.
Dublin’s Victorian Fruit and Vegetable Market between Capel Street and Smithfield in Dublin 7 will close today, after being open for 127 years, to make way for a redevelopment which is expected to take two years.
Last week RTÉ reported that a compensation package for the last remaining stallholders at the market was believed to involve up to €5million.
A tender for the redevelopment will be put out next month.
Meanwhile…
Gaz Smith, of Michael’s restaurant on Mount Merrion in Dublin, has tweeted that he has seen the council’s planned redevelopments…
He’s tweeted…
Anyone?
Dublin’s Victorian market closes after 127 years (Olivia Kelly, The Irish Times)
Previously: At The Market
Pics: Old Dublin Town
Yeah I hope they realise not only the heritage of the site but the potential of it to be great asset to the people and businesses in the area.
I would say the supermarkets have another view
Hopefully they do a good job of this.
Pity it looks like the Iveagh Market will be a typical redevelopment. Probably hotel and offices :-(
The English Market in Cork would be a good example to follow.
The same is true of everything Cork related. .
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8 million if you include the pay off to the stall holders.
hard to see a good job being done when every building constructed over the last while (hotels etc) all look like insanely dull ’90s buildings. the architects involved should be shot for how theyve changed the face of this old city.
Gaz seems to be involved (in an advisory capacity i suspect). he is ‘giddy’ with excitement he says I trust him completely so am cautiously hopeful.
Things I’ll believe when I see. This and Rainbow Rapids
Presumably they’re keeping the facade, right?