Furniture store to open €3m outlet

FURNITURE retailers Casey’s of Cork have hit the expansionist road, with a Limerick store set to open in Spring 2005.

The long-established and top-end of the market sellers of furniture, bedding, and carpets has paid over €3 million to pick up a site for a new furniture superstore by the Raheen Roundabout, previously occupied by Dairygold’s former Co-op Superstore.

It is set to be one of the very largest furniture outlets in the Mid-West.

The family-owned business paid Dairygold over €2.8 million for its former Limerick store site, and then bought adjoining land for an even larger overall site which will accommodate a complementary retailer.

Casey’s plans to build a new furniture store of up to 50,000 sq ft, larger in scale than its long-established and much-extended Cork City Oliver Plunkett Street outlet.

The company is about 80 years in business, and has plans to open further stores outside its core Cork market, with Limerick the first site to be secured.

Designed by John Thompson & Partners Architects, the new 50,000 sq ft outlet for Casey’s is being built by PJ Hegarty & Sons.