Owen O'Callaghan PR? End the recession by...building!

[yehbut_nobut]

Seems O'Callaghan via Barkhill is "doing his patrotic duty"...

Shopping centre expansion plan could create 4,000 jobs


Developers today lodged a planning application for a massive €500m expansion of Liffey Valley shopping centre.

Some 4,000 jobs are expected to be created by the scheme, which promoters hope will be unveiled within five years and transform the area into a new town centre.

The project will include two department stores, 60 new retail units, a large supermarket and an 8,000 square metre civic square.

Denis O’Connell, Liffey Valley centre manager, said the square will be the focal point of the new development.

“The Civic Square will form a focus for the community where they can avail of excellent facilities and enjoy dining, leisure, entertainment, outdoor and cultural events,” Mr O’Connell said.

It is expected the construction phase will provide more than 2,000 jobs, with the majority drawn from the local area – Lucan, Palmerstown, Neilstown and Clondalkin.

The further 2,000 jobs will be created in civic amenities, retail, cleaning and security.

The planning application was lodged by Barkhill, a consortium including developer Owen O’Callaghan.

Liffey Valley Shopping Centre was opened in 1998 and attracts around 10 million shoppers every year.

Shopping centre expansion plan could create 4,000 jobs | BreakingNews.ie


Barkhill is the former Gilmartin company, that AIB and O'Callaghan beacme shareholders co-owners of, no? Are AIB still shareholders?

One other thought - what item (of a legal/judicial nature) is likely to be making the news around the time any planning proposal is finally due for decision?

[anlkestony]

Bertie can open the new shopping centre for o callaghan

[stanley]

By the time this opens Bertie will be hoping the headlines read, President Ahern today opened ....., instead of former disgraced Taoiseach issed a statement today from his cell in Mountjoy, I am sorry....

[Digout]

Its def PR, expect a lot more of it on the run up to the report. If FF duck up tomorrow as expected there will be a blueshirt minister for justice when the report is published, so all the spin and PR will be of no use.