Harbour Place Shopping Centre

Harbour Place Shopping Centre
An Chuain Plás Ionad Siopadóireachta

A view of the shopping centre from the adjacent car park
Coordinates	53°31′40.507″N 7°20′22.896″W / 53.52791861°N 7.33969333°W / 53.52791861; -7.33969333Coordinates: 53°31′40.507″N 7°20′22.896″W / 53.52791861°N 7.33969333°W / 53.52791861; -7.33969333
Address	Harbour Street, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, N91 TC6V
Opening date	November 1997 (1997-11)
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.harbourplace.net

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.

A view of the anchor store, Dunnes Stores

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]

The shopping centre is home to many popular outlets

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