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# Florentine Centre

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Building has begun to turn a vacant Bray site into a shopping centre and 'urban street'

The Florentine Centre site has had many false dawns over the previous two decades.

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Feb 27th 2019, 6:08 PM

The story behind Bray's two-decade wait for a controversial shopping centre

The €25 million Florentine Shopping Centre was recently put out to tender.

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Jun 22nd 2017, 10:30 AM

After 20 years of false starts, a big site in the centre of Bray is finally getting the go-ahead

The Florentine Centre has been earmarked for successive retail developments since 1996.

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Nov 16th 2016, 3:32 PM