Rejected: department store and apartments beside Gaiety

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2004 / June 2 2004: Rejected: department store and apartments beside Gaiety

An Bord Pleanála's decision to overturn planning permission to demolish the former Eircom office building at 35-45 South King Street, Dublin 2 and replace it with a glazed seven-storey retail, restaurant and residential complex has been welcomed by An Taisce - but has come as a severe blow to the street's ailing fortunes. Developer Joe O'Reilly of Castlethorn Developments, who bought the five-storey office block for over €32 million, planned to build a "transparent" seven-storey building beside the Gaiety Theatre and opposite the side entrance to the St Stephen's Green Shopping Centre.

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