TEMPLE BAR:ANOTHER SIGN that Dublin's Temple Bar area has achieved little success as a shopping area comes with the pending sale of the furniture showrooms in the Green Building running from Temple Lane South back to Crowe Street.
The Green Building, which includes six apartments on the upper floors, was launched with considerable fanfare 14 years ago and is serviced by heat pumps which extract heat from bedrock below the building, double glazed windows and heat recovery ventilation.
The furniture design house O'Hagan Design is selling the ground floor retail area of 170sq m (1,829sq ft) and lower ground retail space of 100sq m (1,076sq ft) and the likelihood is that it will be bought for a restaurant.
Stephen McCarthy of Savills Hamilton Osborne King, who is quoting a price of €1.5 million, estimates that, if used for a restaurant, the premises could accommodate between 75 and 80 diners.
Equally, the flexible layout and the dual frontage would allow the space to be used for a variety of businesses.
O'Hagan Design has other outlets in Temple Bar.
