 Dundrum town centre (Tesco entrance) |
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| Location | Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland |
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| Coordinates | 53°17′10″N 6°14′30″W / 53.28611°N 6.24167°WCoordinates: 53°17′10″N 6°14′30″W / 53.28611°N 6.24167°W |
| Address | Dundrum Town Centre Sandyford Road Dundrum Dublin 16 |
| Opening date | 3 March 2005 |
| Management | Don Nugent |
| Owner | Crossidge Developments (Joe O'Reilly) |
| No. of stores and services | 160 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 5 |
| Total retail floor area | 79,000 square metres (850,000 sq ft) |
| Parking | 3,400 |
| No. of floors | 4 (main levels) |
| Website | http://www.dundrum.ie/ |
Dundrum Town Centre is a shopping centre located in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland and is Ireland's largest shopping centre with over 160 tenants and more than 80,000 sq m of floor space. One of Europe's largest capital city-based shopping centres, it is located on the site of the former Pye television factory in a relatively built-up suburban area.
"Dundrum Town Centre" is also a local government term, defined by Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council, before the shopping centre was planned, as "the area between the LUAS line, the Dundrum Relief Road, the Taney Rd./Upper Churchtown Rd. junction and the Wyckham By-Pass Route. It is mainly zoned for Town Centre uses, but with some parts zoned residential." The shopping centre was built under the provisions of the Urban Structure Plan for Dundrum Town Centre.
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History
Opening Day
Dundrum Town Centre was opened on Thursday morning, 3 March 2005. Over 5,000 [1] people queued in the main square. Local clergy blessed the centre before the opening. [1]
Phases
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 Dundrum), a health centre and apartments. The new Hamleys toystore opened in October 2008 at the Pembroke District of the Centre, with a new 3 floor superstore which is one of the biggest stores apart from the Regent Street headquarters.
Tenants
Dundrum lists over 160 tenants ranging from high fashion to restaurants to a cinema. Some of the larger retail tenants include Tesco Ireland, Marks and Spencer, House of Fraser, Next, Oasis Stores, Karen Millen, Harvey Nichols, GAP, Timberland and Penney's. Tesco also operate a petrol station at the shopping centre. A full list of tenants is available on the shopping centre's website.
Virgin Megastore had its largest Irish store in the centre; this later became a Zavvi store, and in January 2009 it and four other Zavvi stores were sold to HMV.
As a condition of the centre's planning permission, a fee is charged for parking to discourage the centre car park being used as a Park and Ride site for the adjacent Luas Green Line, but some stores can remit this.
Media
Dundrum South FM 93.9 is a local BCI-licensed community based radio station for South Dublin. It started broadcasting in 1996 from the old PYE centre, and also broadcast from Rathfarnham. It is now broadcast from its new studios in the Dundrum Town Centre. About 60 volunteers produce and broadcast 35 hours of programmes each week. Transitions students from local schools also get involved, as well as media students.
RTÉ Radio also have a studio on the top floor in the centre.
There is also an in-house TV station, Dundrum Television, operated by RTÉ.
Future
Plans for further expansion include more retail units, and an eventual spread to the site of one of the older shopping centres - the anchor stores of the new area are rumored to be Pottery Barn and Abercrombie & Fitch.[citation needed] There is an area of land across the way from the new Hamley's toy store which is owned by the centre's owners and this could be used for retail stores and fast-food stores.
Awards
On Saturday 15 November 2008, Dundrum Town Centre was awarded "Shopping Centre of the Year" for the second year running at the FBD Retail Excellence Awards, as voted by shopping centre retailers throughout Ireland.[2]
On Friday, 27 April 2007, Dundrum Town Centre was named as the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centres) European Shopping Centre of the year for 2007 at their European conference in Warsaw. Shopping Centres throughout Europe were visited and judged as part of a rigorous adjudication system, which has as its criteria: Tenant Mix, Community Integration, Vision, Customer Service Ethos, Management Systems and Sustainability. From an initial list of 24, a short list of 3 were chosen, which included Shopping Centre Sello in Finland (84,000 Sq. Mtrs.), Silesia City Centre, in Poland (65,000 sq m) and Dundrum Town Centre (79,000 sq m[3].
Competition
The centre competes with Dublin city centre and with The Square, Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in west Dublin, as well as nationally with, e.g., the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick.
See also
References
- ^ a b Rathfarnham Community Website
- ^ Shopping Centre of the Year award 2008
- ^ Dundrum Town Center News
External links
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