Blanchardstown Centre is a large shopping centre, that is located in Blanchardstown

Blanchardstown

Blanchardstown is a large suburb of Dublin in the district of Fingal, Ireland. It is within the historical barony of Castleknock. It is located 10 km north-west of the city centre. The suburb is in the Dublin 15 postal area, the Dublin West electoral constituency, and Fingal County...

, Dublin, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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. It opened in 1996 and was extended in 2004 to create extra retail space.

Stores

The Blanchardstown Centre offers over 180 stores ranging from fashion to electronics, and gifts to houseware. The anchor tenants in the Shopping Centre itself are Dunnes, Penney's

Primark

Primark is a clothing retailer, operating over 223 stores in Ireland , the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Portugal and Belgium...

, Marks and Spencer, H&M

H&M

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, Barratts

Barratts

Barratts Priceless Ltd incorporates two long established high street brands in Barratts Shoes and Priceless Shoes in 2010. The Barratts shoes brand trades from 100 UK and Éire Stores and is committed to providing affordable fashion footwear...

, Debenhams

Debenhams

Debenhams plc is a British retailer operating under a department store format in the UK, Ireland and Denmark, and franchise stores in other countries. The Company was founded in the eighteenth century as a single store in London and has now grown to around 160 shops...

 and Zara

Zara (clothing)

Zara is a Spanish clothing and accessories retailer based in Arteixo, Galicia, and founded in 1975 by Amancio Ortega and Rosalía Mera. It is the flagship chain store of the Inditex group; the fashion group also owns brands such as Massimo Dutti, Pull and Bear, Oysho, Uterqüe, Stradivarius and...

. The Blanchardstown Centre is also home to Ireland's largest TK Maxx store, Lifestyle Sports

Lifestyle Sports

Lifestyle Sports is a chain of sports shops in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and the Czech Republic.- History :Lifestyle Sports was established in 1979 in the Republic of Ireland by Quinnsworth, a subsidiary of Associated British Foods...

 and 53 Degrees North, all of which are located in the Fashion Park. Surrounding the Centre are three retails parks, two of which are part of the Centre, whilst the other, WestEnd Shopping Park

WestEnd Shopping Park

WestEnd Shopping Park is a retail park, located in Blanchardstown in Dublin. It is beside the Blanchardstown Centre.In 2010, the first Toys "R" Us store in Ireland, opened in the retail park.-Anchor Tenants:* Lidl* Next* Heatons* Toys "R" Us...

 is operated separately. Westend Retail Park features several large stores such as New Look (Which retained a Starbucks coffee shop from the previous tenant, Borders), Halfords

Halfords

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, Heatons

Heatons

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 and Next. There are other amenities located in the Blanchardstown Centre including a 9 screen cinema operated by UCI

UCI

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, a Leisureplex entertainment centre, the Draiocht

Draíocht

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 arts centre as well as Ireland's largest public library. There are plenty of restaurants and fast-food outlets available including Ginseng, Ming Court, Dante's, Kay's Kitchen, TGI Fridays, McDonald's

McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

, Burger King

Burger King

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, Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut

Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise that offers different styles of pizza along with side dishes including pasta, buffalo wings, breadsticks, and garlic bread....

, Subway

Subway (restaurant)

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, Wagamama

Wagamama

Wagamama is a British-headquartered restaurant chain, serving pan-Asian food in the style of a modern Japanese Ramen bar.-History:Created by Alan Yau, who subsequently created the Chinese restaurants Hakkasan and Yauatcha in London, the first Wagamama opened in 1992 off Gower Street in...

, Captain America's and, including WestEnd Shopping Park, the leisure plex and UCI Cinema, a total of five branches of Starbucks

Starbucks

Starbucks Corporation is an international coffee and coffeehouse chain based in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 17,009 stores in 55 countries, including over 11,000 in the United States, over 1,000 in Canada, over 700 in the United Kingdom, and...

.

Future

Recently opened is the Crowne Plaza hotel along with the Falcon View apartment complex, and a new bus interchange was constructed by the Yellow entrance. There are plans set to extend the centre by 27500 sq ft (2,554.8 m²) with the new Yellow Mall extension. This will consist of a three story complex with a new anchor store, 17 new shops and a food court located on the second floor, as well as a two-story underground carpark. Eight new restaurants are planned for the exterior.

External links

• Blanchardstown Centre