Letterkenny Retail Parks

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

Letterkenny Retail Parks
Letterkenny Retail Park phase 2
LocationLetterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland
No. of stores and services22
No. of anchor tenants3
No. of floors1

Phase two of the retail park was developed by Patrick J. Doherty.[2]

History

Phase 1

Phase 1 opened with Atlantic Homecare, Toymaster, The Jean Scene, Elverys Sports, Lidl and Harry Corry. Elverys Sports relocated to the Letterkenny Town Centre complex in early 2007.

Phase 2

Phase 2 construction finished by 2005 and it consisted of units which would be used for fashion outlets. Stores such as Next, New Look, Tempest, TK Maxx and also Argos, SuperValu and Right Price Tiles. Marks and Spencer and Menarys Department Store opened on 30 May and 25 May 2007 respectively. This is M&S's first store in the North-West of Ireland. Due to the post 2008 downturn SuperValu closed on 6 January 2009.[3]

On 1 March 2012, KPMG was appointed as receiver to Letterkenny Retail park by Bank of Ireland.

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, called Wardrobe followed by Donegal Sports and Sony Centre. The Shoe Boutique opened at Unit 9, next door to Wardrobe.

See also

References
  1. Case Studies :: Letterkenny Retail Park Archived 2007-09-28 at the Wayback Machine
  2. €35m scheme planned for Letterkenny, Irish Independent. 27 October 2004.
  3. Letterkenny SuperValu set to close with the loss of 27 jobs Archived 2008-12-04 at the Wayback Machine, Donegal Democrat. 27 November 2008.

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