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Digital+material space: history, culture, heritage, archaeology, biodiversity & place. #Linenopolis image: Albert Bridge, Wikimedia Commons

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Wonderful building, not only for its architecture but for the sories, resilience and capacity to adapt and rise like the Phoenix. #developnotdemolish @SaveCQBelfast Images @photojoe2 and Aisling Madden
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When we talk about data centre expansion representing an 'irrational allocation of resources' (@IliasAlami), this is what we are talking about. When there are severe deficits in social infrastructure, construction capacity should not be funnelled into speculative AI.
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Keats and Chapman are closing, now the Tivoli. Castlebrooke has wielded its scythe through North Street and the small local independent businesses that operated there. Forcing them out, only to replace them with proposals and promises that have delivered nothing.
The historic Tivoli Barbershop, which has been in the McGlinchey family since the 1930s, is relocating after a century operating in the Garfield Street and North Street area. Eddie McGlinchey said the street has suffered from years of neglect. Read more: tinyurl.com/37cma5af
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A few photo of this evening's partial #eclipse from a cloudy #Divis.
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Today I stood at the grave of Shemus Heaney in Bellaghy, Co. Tyrone, and read the short poems (“Five Quatrains: translated from the Irish”) which he gave me for inclusion in Librarians, Poets and Scholars: a Festschrift for Dónall Ó Luanaigh, edited by me & published in 2007.
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Ten minutes now will shape this corner of Belfast for a generation. Don't let it be decided without you. Send your feedback to Castlebrooke Investments at share.google/tkoKgog0IA3C3Bc… 1/2
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Genuinely can't believe the cheek of Castlebrooke rep saying on camera yesterday that they are not responsible for the state of Donegall and North Street in its current form is mindboggling, they have owned the properties for a decade! They let it get much worse! #belfast
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Ten minutes now will shape this corner of Belfast for a generation. Don't let it be decided without you. Send your feedback to Castlebrooke Investments at share.google/tkoKgog0IA3C3Bc… 2/2
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Great to see this happening to the former Belfast Bank head office and former Northern Bank branch. A financial building for much longer than it was the Assembly Rooms. The North Street extension is post war following blitz destruction.
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The latest PR campaign from Castlebrooke Investments was launched today and after owning a large swathe of Belfast for ten years their contribution to the city has to date, created nothing but intentional dereliction. Which benefits their present all or nothing approach.
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Replying to @RyanMcAleerbiz
Here is what the North Street Arcade actually could look like if it were developed organically by people who care about the city, rather than corporate speculators pushing soulless, all or nothing masterplans.
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🗓 A reminder that the public consultation for the new plans from Castlebrooke Investments starts at the former Masonic Hall on Rosemary Street *tomorrow* - Tuesday 30 June - at 2pm, and continues on Wednesday 1 July from 11am-6pm 🗓
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A public consultation has opened on new plans for a major redevelopment scheme in Belfast city centre, which has replaced the controversial Tribeca proposal. bbc.in/4v59awC
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The exhibition will have panels, illustrations and digital walk throughs of the new plans, and architectural teams with drawings.   If you can’t attend in person, sign up on the site and fill in the online survey there from 30 June to 14 August. northst-donegallst.co.uk/ 2/2
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The public consultation on Castlebrooke's redrawn residential-led plans for North St/Donegall St (formerly known as 'Tribeca') opens today. Building up and more public space/lanes seems the order of the day (see map). Some key takeaways...
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Feels kind of emotional seeing this... You have to wonder if it would have happened if the council hadn't bought back the Assembly Rooms from Castlebrooke Investments. facebook.com/share/r/1afCErQ…
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In this weekend’s edition of the @BelTel I’ve been arguing that Belfast’s Assembly Rooms on Waring Street has a much more complex and multi-layered backstory than it is often credited with…
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With BCC buying the Assembly Rooms from Castlebrooke, conceivably that money has funded their latest proposals and paid their urban planner etc. Yet, conceivably if approved, Castlebrooke will simply flog it to another developer, who may well just sit on it or again land-bank it.
Interesting story below re sale of Castlebrook property in Manc. The big question for the owners of the area-formerly-known as TriBeCa is what they plan to do after a planning decision. Do they have the money to develop it? Or do they plan to put it on the market?
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Queen Street. The retail unit in the Swanston House student block is still vacant 8 years after the development was completed. There's a new proposal to turn it into a gym for the building's residents
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Plans for the new Cathedral Quarter scheme from Castlebrooke Investments - northst-donegallst.co.uk/ - will be open for public consultation on: 🗓 Tues 30 June - 2pm 8pm 🗓 Wed 1 July - 11am-6pm 📌 Former Masonic Hall, 15 Rosemary Street, Belfast BT1 1QA. 1/2
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