May 26, 2021
CORK TAKES THE HONOURS FOR BUILDING OF THE YEAR, AND THERE COULD BE MORE GLORY IN STORE, WRITES CATHERINE SHANAHAN. FRESH from its success in taking the top prize in a national architecture competition, Building of the Year, achingly hip Penrose Dock, is set to compete against the crème de…
December 10, 2020
Business body Ibec is set to expand and recruit new staff with a Q2 2021 move to landmark Cork city office development, JCD Group’s Penrose Dock. A MOVE by Irish business representative body Ibec to a new ‘Munster hub’ in Cork’s Penrose Dock office development brings the €125m, 250,000 sq…
December 10, 2020
IT’S work Jim, but not as we know it. At Penrose Dock, Cork city’s newest high-level hipster workplace, the notion of not wanting an office job is thoroughly laid to rest. Amid wacky armchairs that resemble giant sea sponges, a black leather sofa in the shape of a canoe, break-out…
September 16, 2020
Line up at 250,000sq ft Cork office campus includes Grant Thornton and Matheson While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to fuel commentary in relation to the future of the office, the reports of its much-anticipated demise don’t appear to have made it as far as Cork. Having commenced the construction in…
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…
October 25, 2019
One of the world’s most prominent professional consultancy services is to open a new office in Cork, with the potential to more than double its workforce in the city. Grant Thornton, the world’s seventh largest professional services network, currently employs around 105 people at its two Cork offices on South…
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…