RetailSite: A site ideal for a free-standing retail operation is expected to attract considerable attention when it goes on the market today in Newbridge, Co Kildare.

Jordan estate agents is suggesting a price over €8 million for the well located 1.03-acre piece of land which has frontage onto Moorefield Road - a continuation of the main street - as well as onto Old Moorefield Road.

Apart from its high profile location, it is almost directly opposite Tesco, Woodies and Dunnes Stores. The "town centre" zoning would allow shopping, restaurant, public house, motor sales and car-parking.

The newly opened Whitewater shopping centre is proving a major boon to the town, attracting hundreds of extra shoppers weekly. A site of 1.5 acres adjoining the present lot going for sale was sold in 2005 for a figure believed to be close to €9 million. The site goes for sale by tender on May 4th.