Limerick City Tidy Towns March 2022 Monthly Award goes to Khan Supermarket on Henry Street

Limerick Tidy Towns March 2022 award winners are Khan Supermarket on Henry Street. Pictured are store owner Fazal Hamadi,  Maura O Neill, Limerick Tidy Towns, store owner Karim Hamadi and building owner Nicole Dunphy. Picture: Ava O’Donoghue/ilovelimerick.

Limerick City Tidy Towns have presented their March 2022 monthly award to Khan Supermarket at 83-84 Henry Street  

Limerick City Tidy Towns have presented their March 2022 monthly award to Khan Supermarket at 83-84 Henry Street.  

Maura says “Khan Supermarket was high on our list of worthy monthly award winners after its fabulous shopfront makeover in Summer 2021, and so it was always going to be one of our first recipients once we recommenced our awards, post-Covid.  The shop frontage has been rebranded with new signage and utterly transformed by Hodkinson & Co, also based on Henry Street, into a highly attractive retail unit, while still retaining its traditional features.  The difference is truly striking and improves this whole section of Henry Street by its “East meets West” design, where a traditional Irish painted shop front has been boldly designed to fit with an Arabic style.”  

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Khan Supermarket is a specialty grocery store which sells grocery, meat, poultry and beverages from all around the globe. Their spices range from all across the middle east and India.  In early 2021, the property’s owner Nicole Dunphy and the tenant Karim Hamadi came together with the view of improving the overall appearance of the building, which had become quite shabby and dated.  This included replacing the PVC windows with timber sash windows, replacing much of the traditional  timber shop front, adding hand-painted signs and a more suitable colour scheme and lighting.   The new design was brought to fruition by Randal Hodkinson of Hodkinson & Co, Ecclesiastical Decorators, who are also based on Henry Street.

Khan Supermarket is Limerick City Tidy Towns’ second monthly award for 2022, and as a result will be in with the chance of winning this year’s overall prize at their annual event to be held early in 2023.   The winners from January and February 2020 will also be included in the overall event, as well as Treaty City Brewery who won the February 2022 award, which was the first in two years.  

If you wish to volunteer with Limerick City Tidy Towns they meet every Sunday morning at 11 am at the corner of Thomas Street and O’Connell Street, and on Wednesday evenings at 6 pm outside the White House during summer months. For further details you can contact [email protected] 

To find out more about Limerick City Tidy Towns go HERE

To see more of our stories on previous Tidy Towns monthly winners go HERE