Covid-19 marks a tough business year in Limerick
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Not since the late 2000s crash have businesses found times so difficult! Nick Rabbitts looks back on 2020 - a year like no other.
JANUARY
Limerick’s new brand, Atlantic Edge: European Embrace, was unveiled at a special ceremony in St Mary’s Cathedral, as well as in New York City.
Limerick received its first jobs boost of the New Year, with financial services firm Axiom SL planning 100 jobs over the course of five years in the National Technology Park.
A planning application was finally submitted for the Horizon Mall site at the Dublin Road. Over the course of 2020, the old concrete structures on the site which was once planned to be a shopping mall and ice rink were demolished, with a new residential and commercial development proposed for the land.