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Kuyichi hits a high note with its first Irish store

The Dutch denim trader Kuyichi has opened its first Irish store at Opera Lane in Cork city centre. It will be paying a rent of €235,000 as well as 10 per cent of its turnover for 380sq m (4,100sq ft),over three floors of the 18th-century Queen Ann premises facing on to Emmet Place.

The store concept forms part of Kuyichis pan-European roll out which will see them open six stores across Europe this year. Kuyichi sells both mens and womens fashions using an almost 100 per cent sustainable product.

Savills handled the letting in Opera Lane where there is now only one remaining store available, a 148sq m (1,600sq ft) outlet located between Top Shop and River Island.

Ex-Anglo Irish office to let

Agent Bannon is quoting €269 per sq m (€25 per sq ft) for a large office suite formerly occupied by Anglo Irish Bank at Hambleden House on Lower Pembroke Street in Dublin 2. The agency says it is prepared to offer “flexible new lease terms” for the space which extends to 593sq m (6,383sq ft) on the lower ground floor.

Maxi Zoo does Douglas

Hot on the heels of Marks Spencer’s announcement that it is to open a new outlet at Douglas shopping centre in Co Cork before Christmas, the letting agents have finalised a letting deal with Maxi Zoo for a shop of 557sq m (6,000sq ft). The pet supply specialist will be paying a base rent of €150,000. Maxi Zoo is already fitting out the space, its eighth outlet in the Republic but the first in a shopping centre. It normally trades out of retail parks. The joint letting agents were DTZ Sherry FitzGerald and Bannon.