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Business optimism returning to Waterford City centre

Business optimism returning to Waterford City centre

The latest CSO figures show that the picture is improving for retailers nationally.

Retail sales rose by 12% in the month of July, an increase of 2 per cent from the same time last year.

Waterford Business Group spokesperson Michael Garland says there's been a definite lift in Waterford city centre recently.

"The City in Bloom, which is all the flowers (adorning city centre shop fronts) has lifted it," he says, "and I know there's plans afoot between ourselves and the Council to take over Tidy Towns and make it bigger and better."

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Michael Garland says it's a tough time for retailers generally in Waterford but that the green shoots of recovery are visible, particularly after the redevelopment of the Applemarket.

 

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