Dundrum Town Centre is a shopping centre located in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland on the site of the defunct Pye television factory. A shopping mall or shopping centre is a building or set of buildings that contain Retail units with interconnecting Walkways enabling visitors Dundrum ( Dún Droma in Irish, the ridge fort) originally a Town in its own right is now a suburban village and district in the county of Dublin (ˈdʌblɨn/ /ˈdʊblɨn or /ˈdʊbəlɪn/, bˠalʲə aːha klʲiəh or cliə(ɸ is both the largest city and capital of Ireland. Ireland (pronounced /ˈaɾlənd/ Éire) is the third largest island in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world This article is about the electronics company Pye Ltd. For other uses of Pye see Pye (disambiguation. It is the second largest shopping centre in Ireland following the expansion of Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and opening of a new retail park in September 2007. Blanchardstown ( Baile Bhlainséir in Irish) is a growing outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Dundrum Town Centre was built in a relatively built-up suburban area and bucks the current trend of building out-of-town (such as the Crescent Shopping Centre in Limerick and The Square, Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and Liffey Valley Shopping Centre in west Dublin). The Crescent Shopping Centre is a major shopping centre in Limerick, Ireland. Limerick (pronounced /ˈlɪmrɪk/ Luimneach in Irish) is a city and the county seat of County Limerick in the Province of Munster The Square is a Shopping centre in Tallaght in south-west Dublin. Blanchardstown ( Baile Bhlainséir in Irish) is a growing outer suburb of Dublin, Ireland. Liffey Valley Shopping Centre is a shopping centre in Dublin, Ireland. It consumes 13 MW of power, this is over a 7th of the output of Ardnacrusha power plant (86 MW). The watt (symbol W) is the SI derived unit of power, equal to one Joule of energy per Second. Ardnacrusha power station ( originally referred to as The Shannon Scheme, is Ireland 's largest river Hydroelectric scheme and is operated on a purpose Dundrum town centre has over 160 shops with more than 80,000m² of floor space.
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Opening Day
Dundrum Town Centre was opened on Thursday morning, 3rd March 2005. Over 5,000 [1] people queued in the main square. Local clergy blessed the centre before the opening. [2]
Phases and Milestone Dates
The second phase of the centre opened in September 2005. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. On 23 September 2005 the first Irish branch of Harvey Nichols opened. Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Harvey Nichols ("Harvey Nicks" founded in 1813 is an Upmarket Department store chain This is the anchor for a "fashion district". A cinema - Movies@Dundrum - opened on 30 September 2005. Cinemaaustraliajpg|thumb|A movie theater in Australia ]]A movie theater, movie theatre, picture theatre or cinema is a venue Movies@ Ltd is a cinema chain in the Republic of Ireland. The company opened its first multiplex cinema at the Dundrum Town Centre on 1 October Events 1399 - Henry IV is proclaimed King of England. 1744 - France and Spain defeat the A third phase included the addition of more retail units, several restaurants, a theatre (The Mill Theatre Dundrum), a health centre and apartments. Overview The Mill Theatre was built during the building of the Dundrum Town Centre in order to facilitate both local and national groups wishing to perform in the area
Tenants
Anchor tenants include Tesco Ireland, Marks and Spencer, House of Fraser, Next, Harvey Nichols and Penney's. In Retail an anchor store, draw tenant, anchor tenant, or key tenant, is one of the larger stores in a Shopping mall, usually Tesco Ireland Limited is a Supermarket company in the Republic of Ireland formed in Tesco plc's 1997 acquisition of the Irish retailing Marks & Spencer Group plc (also M&S, Marks and Sparks, and Marks) is a British Retailer with 843 stores in more than 30 House of Fraser is a British Department store group with 63 stores (April 2008 across the United Kingdom and Ireland. NeXT Computer Inc (later NeXT Software Inc) was an American Computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California that Harvey Nichols ("Harvey Nicks" founded in 1813 is an Upmarket Department store chain Tesco also operate a petrol station on site. A filling station, fueling station, gas station, service station, petrol station, or gasbar, Retail Outlet
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. Luas /ɫ̪uəsˠ/ ( Irish for 'speed' also promoted in the development stage as the Dublin Light Rail System, is a Light rail or Tram
Future
The future of this centre is for further expansion to include more retail units, and an eventual spread to the site of the older shopping centre. There are also plans to expand the centre to a size of 150,000m².