John and James Staunton, owners of the sports outlets, through a subsidiary company called Grosam Properties, had been granted permission from Dublin City Council for a mixed-use office and retail development opposite the new Dunnes Stores home furnishings shop on George's Street but local residents have appealed the decision claiming it constitutes overdevelopment. Grosam has also appealed some of the conditions attaching to the permission granted by the council.

The plan is to demolish the existing structures with the exception of the brick facade on South Great George's Street and part of Stephen Street Lower and to replace it with a four-storey building with two additional penthouse levels that will incorporate the brick facade.

The Jaipur Indian restaurant on the ground floor would not be affected by the development, which will see the construction of a new shop front on the ground floor and 2,864sq m of retail space at lower basement, upper basement, ground and first floor levels. Above that 3,078sq m of office space is planned including 1,296sq m in the penthouse, with access from Stephen Street Lower.

Entry to the retail element will be via South Great George's Street. The building is on a quarter acre site and formerly traded as Fashion Layer, which has since relocated to the Fashion City scheme at the M50 Business Park in Dublin 24.

George's Street has long been regarded as underdeveloped with many boarded up shopfronts and a lack of any significant retail offering. However, Dunnes Stores, which owns a substantial portion of the street, has recently opened a specialised home furnishing store opposite the Elverys development and has plans to open another retail unit in a neighbouring site in the near future.