Harbour Place Shopping Centre
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| An Chuain Plás Ionad Siopadóireachta | |
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 A view of the shopping centre from the adjacent car park | |
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| Coordinates | 53°31′40.507″N 7°20′22.896″W / 53.52791861°N 7.33969333°W |
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| Address | Harbour Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, N91 TC6V |
| Opening date | November 1997 |
| No. of stores and services | 100 |
| No. of anchor tenants | 1 |
| Total retail floor area | 23,623 square metres (254,280 sq ft) |
| No. of floors | 2 |
| Parking | 750 spaces including the second carpark [1] |
| Website | www |
Harbour Place Shopping Centre (Irish: An Chuain Plás Ionad Siopadóireachta) is a shopping centre located in Mullingar, Ireland. The centre is anchored by Dunnes Stores, and it is overall the largest store in the shopping centre. It is one of the most well-known shopping centres in Mullingar, and one of the busiest in the town.
Development
Permission was granted by the Westmeath County Council for a shopping centre to be built beside Cusack Park. Development began on the shopping centre began in 1995 and the shopping centre was completed two years later opening in November 1997.
Selling of the centre
In November 2014, the shopping centre was auctioned for €50 million, along with 'The Harvest Portfolio' which included the Johnstown Shopping Centre in Navan, Cashel Town Shopping Centre, Thurles Shopping Centre and Dungarvan Shopping Centre.[2]
Stores
Harbour Place consists of many small outlets such as Boots, EuroGiant Express and a Vodafone Talk to Me store. All stores are located on the ground floor of the shopping centre. On the first floor, there a radio studio, bathrooms and an Esquire's Coffee café which has opened in recent years after the closing of the previous cafe 'Cafe Le Monde' which once resided in the same location prior its premature closure. In late January 2015, Golden Discs closed down unexpectedly with the loss of four jobs. The owners deemed the shopping centre “no longer commercially viable”.[3]
