March 11, 2020
A strong flavour of FDI, cybersecurity and data protection companies feature in the major 250,000sq ft Penrose Dock, Cork city, office scheme, with a June opening date confirmed this week by developers JCD Group. They said more than 60%, or 150,000sq ft, has now been reserved in the project, by…
December 18, 2019
Standing on the outdoor roof-top terrace of the rapidly completing 250,000 sq ft Penrose Dock office scheme on Cork’s North Quays docklands, developer John Cleary looks south over the River Lee, and then downriver, to the east. The JCD group MD says,“over there was the last 15 years….and down there…
November 28, 2019
They have been unveiled as the latest tenant of the Penrose Dock Development. Popular health food cafe Naturally Nourished are set to open a new outlet in Cork City centre after the success of their cafe in City Gate Park. The Cork company specialise in salads, healthy hot dishes, sandwiches…
November 28, 2019
Investment worth a further €10m is set to flow into Cork’s Blarney Business Park, in a significant speculative drive forward by the park’s new owners, JCD Group. They pledge to invest further sums and to develop “all the land at the campus in the next two years: this investment will…
June 27, 2019
Cork’s skyline is set to reach new heights with the country’s tallest building planned for the city’s docklands. The 25-storey tower, next to fully occupied 17-storey Elysian development, has been unveiled by developers JCD on the former Sextant bar and existing Carey Tool Hire site on Albert Quay and Albert…
May 23, 2019
The first new office building to be constructed on Cork city’s South Mall in a generation is 35% more energy efficient than comparable buildings, constructed even up to just a decade ago. That’s the achievement of 85 South Mall, a 45,000 sq ft Gold LEED office block snuck into a…
April 19, 2019
The tallest office building so far developed in Cork City, Penrose Dock next to Kent Rail Station at up to nine storeys, is setting an even more impressive record: its first core and lift shaft is up to full height, less than a year after the €125m project on the…
March 6, 2019
One of the city’s biggest construction projects reached a significant milestone this week, four weeks ahead of schedule. The first tower crane was erected at JCD’s latest City Centre office development, Penrose Dock, yesterday and the excavation works of the almost two-acre double basement excavation phase nears completion. The project’s…
September 12, 2018
A major planning approval this week brings to €300m the value of development set to flow onto Cork City’s north quays, by CIÉ’s Kent railway station. Cork City Council has approved a planning application for a €125m office development, Penrose Dock on Penrose Quay, spanning 250,000 sq ft across two…
September 6, 2018
A €1bn Texas-based cybersecurity company, Forcepoint, is to occupy two floors of Cork city centre’s new office block, 85 South Mall, intensifying the 21st-century tech corridor on the southern capital’s most traditional business, banking, commerce and services boulevard. Confirmation of Forcepoint’s commitment and set to bring 100 jobs means the…