Residents and businesses have given some areas of the Donegal town a new look and a fresh start, but there is still plenty of work to be done
“We hosed down the street, we painted all the doors. I thought he was nuts, but Donnan was thinking of the bigger picture, that if the place is clean and looks good, businesses will want to move in, and that’s what happened.”
“People are naturally attracted to the historic cores of towns, and it’s given Upper Main Street and this Cathedral Quarter area a new purpose and attracted tenants to come here,” says Harvey. “This could be a model for other places.” “I talk to people all the time who are living the housing crisis, and they are devastated every day when they walk past derelict buildings, they think the country doesn’t care about them,” he said.
“The low-hanging fruit is: take those houses now, get them refurbished – either tax the landlord for derelict properties or purchase them to get them back into suitable hands and get them made into housing again. That would make a massive difference.” “If you can change how a place looks, you can change the atmosphere, you can change the perception,” said Gerard McCormick, co-chair of Letterkenny Tidy Towns and owner of Magee’s Pharmacy in the Co Donegal town’s centre.
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