Holywood Exchange Retail Park Knocknagoney Belfast

I'm over at Holywood Exchange, a major retail development on the edge of Belfast and Holywood, Co Down, Northern Ireland. This area beside Belfast City Airport and the Harbour Estate, has also retained it's traditional townland name of Knocknagoney. At present, the development compromises an 11 unit, 13,940 m2 (150,000 ft2) retail warehouse centre with, Harvey Norman, Next Home, Decathlon, E Z Living Interiors, Home Bargains, Costa, Subway, Lidls on one side or the roundabout and Sainsbury's food store and service station, the big B&Q store, and a massive IKEA Swedish Self Assembly SuperStore, on the other roundabout side. Planning permission was granted in February 2001. Construction of the B&Q store commenced in December 2002. B&Q Holywood Exchange opened in August 2003. Sainsbury's Holywood Exchange opened in September 2003 with a sales area of 3,809 m2 (41,000 ft2) IKEA In January 2006, IKEA announced its intention to build a 25,800 m2 (278,000 ft2) store, its first in Northern Ireland. In May 2006, IKEA amended its application for a larger 29,000 m2 (312,000 ft2) store. The application was approved in December 2006,[12] work on the store began in January 2007, and the store opened on 13 December 2007. The store includes a five hundred seat Restaurant, Bistro and Swedish Shop and has parking for 1455 vehicles. Heating is provided by a 1.2 MW biomass boiler fuelled by locally produced woodchips. January 2015, Subway and Costa Coffee opened for business. 303 Airport Rd W, Belfast BT3 9EJ