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    1. Jamierob1999 on

      Abandoned Connswater Shopping Centre

      Opened in 1983, Connswater Shopping Centre was once one of the best-known retail spots in East Belfast. Built on land that had previously been home to the Belfast Ropework Company, the site changed from an old industrial area into a busy shopping hub for the community.

      For decades, Connswater was more than just a place to shop. It had major names like Tesco, Dunnes, Boots, New Look, Poundland and The Range, along with smaller local traders. The centre was extended and modernised over the years, including work in the 1990s and 2000s, as it tried to keep up with the changing retail world.

      But like many older shopping centres, Connswater slowly began to struggle. Online shopping, rising costs, falling footfall and the loss of key tenants all played a part. By the time its closure was announced, many units were already empty and only a number of traders remained.

      After 42 years of trading, the shutters finally came down on 21 March 2025. The retail park beside it remained open, but the main shopping centre was left behind — silent walkways, empty shop fronts and memories of what it once was.

      Once a busy part of everyday life for so many people, Connswater now stands as another reminder of how quickly places full of life can become abandoned.

      A shopping centre that served generations… now frozen in time.

    3. Hopeful-Remote9725 on

      This is very sad. I spent many Saturdays in Connswater as a child either trailing behind my mum shopping, or later messing with my friends. Inner East Belfast doesn’t have much going for it these days. I think you’ll see there a lot of evidence of loyalism and this new anti-immigration shit but all that becomes attractive when there is this kind of feeling of decline and loss that comes with vacant buildings and shopping centres, and hard times economically.

    5. xelas1983 on

      It is amazing how we let things die. I hope someone comes up with another way to use it.

      Ingenuity is a gift and hopefully someone has it here.

    9. NMTAMCC on

      Why does forestside get so many people shopping there but Connswater didn’t?

    13. SoloWingPixy88 on

      This suffered the same environment all other retailers suffered. A lot of this failure seems to be hyper focusing on discount chains. A lot of bad management decisions.

    14. SoftDrinkReddit on

      would they not just pull it down by now and either build apartments there or let the land sit until they can open something else there

    15. jaffaxake246 on

      Reminds me of Rathdowney shopping centre. Is that place still open? Such a random place to spend millions building a shopping centre.

    16. G1ForceX on

      used to be a dunnes stores there up until 2015 i think, in the heart of east balfast as well

    17. ForbiddenToblerone on

      I feel like the Eyre Square Shopping Centre in Galway is heading this way. It currently has a Dunnes and a Penneys keeping it alive.

      The place is in bad need of a makeover and is slowly being subsumed by vape shops and phone repair shops. A lot of empty units, too.

    21. Penny0034 on

      Even Dundrum isn’t as good as it was pre pandemic, Superdry, Urban Outfitters, Hotel Chocolat, HMV, House of Fraser, Hamleys, Argos, all gone

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