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Opening date
  
3 March 2005

No. of stores and services
  
160

Opened
  
3 March 2005

Owners
  
Hammerson, Allianz

Management
  
Don Nugent

No. of anchor tenants
  
5

Phone
  
+353 1 299 1700

Dundrum Town Centre

Location
  
Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland

Architect
  
Burke - Kennedy Doyle Architects, Dublin, Ireland

Address
  
Sandyford Rd, Dundrum, Dublin 16, Ireland

Hours
  
Open today · 9AM–9PMWednesday9AM–9PMThursday9AM–9PMFriday9AM–9PMSaturday9AM–7PMSunday10AM–7PMMonday9AM–9PMTuesday9AM–9PM

Similar
  
Blanchardstown Centre, Liffey Valley, Ilac Centre, Mill Theatre Dundrum, Jervis Shopping Centre

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"Dundrum Town Centre" is a shopping centre located in Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. It is Ireland's largest shopping centre with over 169 tenants, almost 140,000 square metres of floor space, and over 3,400 car parking spaces. It is located just south of the town centre of Dundrum.

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History

Dundrum Town Centre was built on the site of the former Pye television factory, later the site of an entertainment and bowling centre called Dundrum Bowl. In 1993, the Dundrum Bowl was closed in due to flooding.

Dundrum Town Centre was opened on 3 March 2005. Over 5,000 people queued in the main square. Within 3 years, over 70 million people visited Dundrum Town Centre.

The centre has grown in phases and is divided into various districts. The "Gallery" district is located in the main building, the "Pembroke" district is locating around the Mill Pond, and the "Dundrum South" district is located outside the main Tesco overground car park.

In July 2016, the UK commercial property firm, Hammerson, bought control of Dundrum from Allianz for a reported £1.01 billion, and will own it jointly with Germany's Allianz Real Estate.

Name

"Dundrum Town Centre" was originally a local government term, defined by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, before the shopping centre was built. It was described as "the area between the Luas line, the Dundrum Relief Road, the Taney Rd./Upper Churchtown Rd. junction and the Wyckham By-Pass Route. It is mainly zoned for Town Centre uses, but with some parts zoned residential." The shopping centre was built under the provisions of the Urban Structure Plan for Dundrum Town Centre.

Also the name Dundrum Shopping Centre refers to an older smaller shopping centre off Main Street in Dundrum, which is still open and home to Lidl, Dealz, Mulveys of Dundrum. In recent years following many years of decay due to the opening of the Town Centre, efforts have been made to revamp this centre and it is now known as Dundrum Village Centre.

Tenants

Dundrum Town Centre contains a range of retail, restaurant and entertainment tenants. Retail stores include Tesco Ireland, Marks and Spencer, House of Fraser, H&M, Next, Harvey Nichols, Gap, Hollister Co., Penney's, Hamleys and Zara. Restaurants include Eddie Rocket’s, FIVE GUYS, Milano's, Nando's and TGI Fridays. Entertainment includes a Movies@ cinema and Mill Theatre Dundrum. A temporary ice-skating rink is operational in December.

Public transport

The centre is served by the Luas green line, the closest station is Balally but it is also close to Dundrum station.

It is also served by Dublin Bus routes 14, 44, 44b and 75

Media

Dublin South FM 93.9 is a local BCI-licensed community based radio station for South Dublin. It started broadcasting in 1996 from the old PYE centre, and also broadcast from Rathfarnham. It is now broadcast from its new studios in the Dundrum Town Centre. About 60 volunteers produce and broadcast 35 hours of programmes each week. Transitions students from local schools also get involved, as well as media students.

Communicorp also have a studio in Dundrum Town Centre with 98fm, SPIN 1038, NewsTalk and Today FM regularly broadcasting from it. Today FM's Phil Cawley presents a show from the centre every Sunday from 1-4.

There is also an in-house TV station, Dundrum Television, operated by RTÉ.

2011 flood

Dundrum Town Centre was evacuated shortly before 8pm on 24 October 2011 after floodwaters surged through the doors. The owner of a Mexican restaurant in the complex said five feet of water had rushed down steps towards his business, causing thousands of euro worth of damage.

Awards

In 2011, DTC was awarded the county's first Ecocert certification.

By the end of 2009, Dundrum Town Centre had won 30 national and international awards since opening.

In 2009, Dundrum Town Centre was awarded "Shopping Centre of the Year" for the third year running at the FBD Retail Excellence Awards, as voted by shopping centre retailers throughout Ireland.

On 27 April 2007, Dundrum Town Centre was named as the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centres) European Shopping Centre of the year for 2007 at their European conference in Warsaw. Shopping Centres throughout Europe were visited and judged as part of a rigorous adjudication system, which has as its criteria: Tenant Mix, Community Integration, Vision, Customer Service Ethos, Management Systems and Sustainability. From an initial list of 24, a short list of 3 were chosen, which included Shopping Centre Sello in Finland (84,000 sq m), Silesia City Centre, in Poland (65,000 sq m) and Dundrum Town Centre (then 79,000 sq m).

References

Dundrum Town Centre Wikipedia