Plan to expand Frascati Shopping Centre in Blackrock

PLANS to expand Blackrock Frascati Shopping Centre are to proceed in the New Year.

The new, approved plans provide for an extensive expansion of the shopping centre to provide for additional retail shop units, a restaurant/café and additional car parking spaces. 

Invesco have confirmed that they have completed the purchase of the centre from the Roche family.

Commenting on the plans and the Invesco acquisition of the centre, Cllr Victor Boyhan (Ind) said: “The rejuvenation of Frascati Centre will see a greatly expanded Marks & Spencer’s store on the site and that’s very welcome.

“The planned works will see a reconfigured entrance and exit, along with additional car parking spaces that will address local concerns about the traffic implication of the proposal.

“I raised a number of concerns on behalf of local residents at the pre-planning stage about the landscaping of the site, and I am pleased that a major landscape plan for the open spaces on the site has been agreed with the developers as part of the planning consent.”

Cllr Boyhan added: “The news that Invesco, the new owners of the Frascati Centre, plan to go ahead with the redevelopment of the site in the New Year is good news for Blackrock.

“This will form part of a greater plan to reestablish the town as a select retail destination in the county.”