History in shop front

SHOP fronts don’t come much more historic, or reborn, as at Limerick city’s Grand Central, on pedestrianised street Bedford Row off O’Connell Street.

The contemporary styled 15,000 sq ft mixed use development, for sale now as an investment for €650,000, includes the classical limestone facade of a 19th century Methodist church (designed by James Paine) within its newly-glazed atrium.

And, it’s not the first time the stone facade has been embraced within a development: it also managed to stand within the city’s 1950s built cinema Grand Central, retained 15’ feet behind the cinema’s front.