Editing Limerick (section)

====Retail parks and shopping centres====
[[File:DunnesStore Limerick.JPG|thumb|right|[[Dunnes Stores]] in Limerick City]]
During the [[Celtic Tiger]] years a number of shopping centres and retail parks opened in suburban areas of Limerick. In addition to the Crescent Shopping Centre, which expanded in the early 2000s, the Jetland Shopping Centre and Childers Road Retail Park opened in the mid-2000s. As of 2017, unfinished retail centres included the [[Coonagh, Limerick City|Coonagh]] Cross retail development<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/lit-to-open-14m-campus-454652.html|title=LIT to open €14m campus|work=[[Irish Examiner]]|first=Niall|last=Murray|date=13 July 2017|access-date=14 June 2020|archive-date=14 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614002026/https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/lit-to-open-14m-campus-454652.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and the Parkway Valley Shopping Centre on the Dublin Road.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/271733/limerick-s-parkway-valley-development-to-be-placed-on-derelict-sites-register.html|title=Limerick's Parkway Valley development to be placed on derelict sites register|work=[[The Limerick Leader]]|first=David|last=Hurley|date=20 September 2017|access-date=14 June 2020|archive-date=14 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614002024/https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/home/271733/limerick-s-parkway-valley-development-to-be-placed-on-derelict-sites-register.html|url-status=live}}{{subscription required}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.limerickpost.ie/2019/09/18/councillors-call-for-horizon-mall-sitework-to-be-levelled/|title=Councillors call for Horizon Mall site work to be levelled|work=[[The Limerick Post]]|first=Alan|last=Jacques|date=18 September 2019|access-date=14 June 2020|archive-date=1 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001100856/https://www.limerickpost.ie/2019/09/18/councillors-call-for-horizon-mall-sitework-to-be-levelled/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The plans for the Opera Centre, a proposed retail development described as "one of the biggest commercial development sites in the city's history", make up part of the "Limerick 2030" scheme.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2019/1126/1095245-bats-limerick-opera-centre/|title=Planning appeal over €180m Limerick Opera Centre|publisher=[[RTÉ News and Current Affairs]]|first=Cathy|last=Halloran|date=26 November 2019|access-date=13 June 2020|archive-date=13 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613214056/https://www.rte.ie/news/munster/2019/1126/1095245-bats-limerick-opera-centre/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2020/1130/1181373-limerick-opera-site/ | publisher = RTÉ News | website = rte.ie | title = Work starts on building Limerick's Opera site | date = 30 November 2020 | accessdate = 10 May 2021 | archive-date = 12 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210512060049/https://www.rte.ie/news/regional/2020/1130/1181373-limerick-opera-site/ | url-status = live }}</ref>