Northside Shopping Centre
Northside Shopping Centre logo
LocationCoolock, Dublin, Ireland
Coordinates53°23′45″N 6°12′49″W / 53.395761°N 6.213612°W / 53.395761; -6.213612
AddressOscar Traynor Road
Opening date18 June 1970 (1970-06-18)
OwnerAM Alpha
ArchitectStephenson Gibney & Associates
Parking600+[1]
Websitenorthsideshoppingcentre.ie

Northside Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Coolock, a suburban area in Dublin's Northside. One of the earliest shopping centres in Ireland, it was built in 1970 and is the only one with a swimming pool. It has been expanded, refurbished and renovated a number of times and passed through the hands of the National Asset Management Agency, before being sold to Patron Capital. Patron then sold the centre for a sum of €50 million in 2019 to German company Am Alpha.

History

The centre was originally constructed in 1970 as an open-air facility, designed by Stephenson Gibney & Associates for Green Property Co Ltd in association with Dublin Corporation at the cost of £1 million.[2]

Northside, along with Stillorgan Shopping Centre, which remained open-air for decades, was one of the first modern shopping centres in Ireland. The local authority, then Dublin Corporation, arranged for a municipal swimming pool to be constructed above the shopping centre.

Renovations and extension in the 1980s and 2008 have covered most of Sam Stephenson's original open-space concept.[3]

In 2013 it was announced that a €5 million further refurbishment was about to commence in the centre.[4] This followed the loss of the anchor non-food store, a Dunnes Stores branch, and saw the arrival of new shops, including Heatons (with Sportsworld), new dining facilities, and a Well Woman Centre. The refurbishment was completed in late 2016 following a 2-phase modernisation of both interior and exterior.[5]

The centre was numbered among the property assets of NAMA, Ireland's post-recession National Asset Management Agency; it was subsequently sold to Patron Capital for €49m.[6]

The branch of Paddy Power bookmakers in the car park was one of the venues visited in a Channel 4's Undercover Boss episode 3, season 4.[7]

Competition

Three other centres, Omni Park Shopping Centre, Artaine Castle Shopping Centre and Clarehall Shopping Centre, compete for business in the area.

A bus stopped in front of the shopping centre, May 1990
The old logo, in use from 1970–2016

References

  1. ↑ "Northside Shopping Centre". Savills Marketing Commercialisation and Research. 2013. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
  2. ↑ "£1m. shopping centre". Irish Examiner. 24 October 1969. p. 2. Retrieved 8 August 2023 – via Irish Newspaper Archives.
  3. ↑ "1970 – Northside Shopping Centre, Coolock, Dublin". Archiseek. 2015.
  4. ↑ "€5m Investment for Northside Shopping Centre". Insider Media. 22 May 2013. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "It's celebration time at Northside Shopping Centre". Dublin People (newspaper). 16 October 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  6. ↑ "Nama sales so far and still to come". Project Drive. Irish Independent. 16 May 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Series 4 - Episode 3 – William Reeve, Paddy Power". Channel 4. Retrieved 21 November 2016.
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