Letterkenny Retail Parks

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Letterkenny Retail Parks
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Letterkenny Retail Park phase 2
Location Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
No. of stores and services22
No. of anchor tenants 3
No. of floors1

Letterkenny Retail Park and Riverside Retail Park are retail parks on the Paddy Harte/Link Road in central Letterkenny, County Donegal. [1]

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History

Phases

Phase 1 opened with Atlantic Homecare, Toymaster, Lidl, Harry Corry and other stores.[ citation needed ]

Phase 2 construction finished by 2005, with stores such as Next, New Look, Tempest, TK Maxx, Argos and SuperValu. Marks and Spencer and Menarys Department Store opened in May 2007. Due to the post 2008 downturn SuperValu closed on 6 January 2009. [2] Phase 2 of the retail park was developed by Patrick J. Doherty. [3]

Riverside Retail Park

Construction of the Riverside Retail Park commenced in 2006. It has a total of 10 retail units. The first store opened in this phase was a ladies fashion clothing store, followed by Donegal Sports and Sony Centre.[ citation needed ]

Receivership and sale

In March 2012, Bank of Ireland appointed KPMG as receiver to Letterkenny Retail Park. [4]

As of 2022, Letterkenny Retail Park had been placed on sale for around €35 million. [4] At the time it had 36 retail warehouse units. [4] The standalone McDonald's drive-thru fast food restaurant and Lidl supermarket were not included in the sale. [4] The Dunnes Stores was also not included in the sale. [4]

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References

  1. Case Studies :: Letterkenny Retail Park Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Letterkenny SuperValu set to close with the loss of 27 jobs Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine , Donegal Democrat. 27 November 2008.
  3. €35m scheme planned for Letterkenny, Irish Independent. 27 October 2004.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Heaney, Kate (24 March 2022). "Retail Park put on the market". Donegal News . p. 21.