Pierce Turner won't be performing his annual Christmas show in Ireland because all the Irish will most likely be in New York for the holiday shopping. He's staying home in Manhattan and will appear at Joe's Pub in December.
Shopping trips to New York are all the rage with the newly well-heeled of Ireland. There's nothing they love better than a long weekend in Manhattan, visiting the shops or taking in a Broadway show or dining in fine restaurants. Yes, Manhattan is a lovely place to visit. But they'd rather not live there all the same.
Developer Sean Dunne has plans to build something grand on the site of the former Jurys Ballsbridge and Berkeley Court hotels. As land in the area is at a premium, he's planning to go up as he cannot go wide. That's what's done on the island of Manhattan, and this new proposal will brings a touch of Manhattan's density to Ballsbridge.
Councillor Paddy McCartan is of the mind that Manhattan is not suited to Ballsbridge, and he's not at all pleased with the Dunne project as presented yesterday. His constituents would end up with Manhattan, he said, and they don't want that. If they want New York City sprawl, they'll hop on a plane and go see it. Living in it is another matter altogether.
Hard to imagine a twenty-seven story tower in a city that very nearly scrapped its historic and beautiful Georgian treasures. City planners will get an earful from the area residents, and if Sean Dunne is a savvy developer, he's got a scaled-down proposal all ready to go. It will still be big, because that's the only way he can recoup his investment in the land, but it cannot be Manhattan revisited.
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