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Northside Shopping Centre is a shopping centre located in Coolock, a suburban area in Dublin's Northside. One of the earliest shopping centres in Ireland, it was built in 1970 and is the only one with a swimming pool which is located on the upper level. It has been expanded and refurbished and renovated a number of times and was included in some of the property assets of National Asset Management Agency, known as NAMA, who no longer own the property after it was sold to Patron Capital.HistoryThe centre was originally constructed in 1970 as an open-air centre, designed by Stephenson Gibney & Associates. Renovations and extension in the 1980s and 2008 have covered most of Sam Stephenson's original open-space concept.In 2013 it was announced that a €5 million refurbishment was about to commence in the centre. The much needed revamp brought the centre back to life after the closure of the Dunnes Stores clothing store with new shops opening such as Heatons with Sportsworld, Costa, FujiFilm Photo Centre, Northside Opticians, Well Women Centre, 'Cafe Misto' Food Court (formally Graham O'Sullivan) and KFC. The refurbishment was completed in late 2016 following a 2-phase modernisation of both interior and exterior.