Limerick ‘has a lot of retail space but lacks factory units’

WHILE Limerick has a huge amount of new shopping space to offer retail newcomers such as Marks & Spencer, the city is short of large factory units for multi-national industries, a breakfast briefing heard yesterday.

Marks & Spencer is inadvanced talks for a 40,000sq ft city centre unit which will employ 250 in its first Limerick outlet.

Paul McNeive of Hamilton Osborne King told more than 200 Limerick business people, there is only one large building of 100,000sq ft available for an industry wishing start up without delay in Limerick.