In 2022, then Communities Minister Deidre Hargey announced that \u00a3915,000 was being made available through her department\u2019s Urban Development Grant Scheme, to regenerate Perry Street, which she called an \u201cimportant gateway into Dungannon town centre\u201d.<\/p>\n
The total development costs for the project at that time were revealed to be \u00a33,048,537, with the Department for Communities contributing \u00a3914,561 of grant funding.<\/p>\n
The remaining project funding has come from the Castlehill Regeneration Group, who are the owners of numbers 4 to 36 on one entire side of Perry Street, which has been in extremely poor condition for years.<\/p>\n
Approval was given to the multi million pound revitalisation project back in 2018.<\/p>\n
The project also lies within a Conservation Area and there have been major issues in the past achieving such a scheme.<\/p>\n
The redevelopment also includes the creation of three new apartments and eight townhouses, with the construction work carried out by Ernest Watt & Sons.<\/p>\n
That work is now nearing completion, with new photos of the area shared recently on the Dungannon Area Community Page via Facebook.<\/a><\/p>\n The lease has already been agreed on one of the commercial units as of this weekend, according to PropertyPal.<\/p>\n Speaking three years ago, Ms Hargey said: \u201cI am pleased that my Department has been able to provide over \u00a3900,000 of Urban Development Grant funding to regenerate Perry Street which is an important gateway into Dungannon town centre.<\/p>\n \u201cThis project will bring back into full use a complete street of vacant, derelict and underutilised buildings which have blighted this part of Dungannon town centre for many years.\u201d<\/p>\n Dungannon is set to welcome a new Lidl superstore soon in its town centre as well.<\/p>\n