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…
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…
November 8, 2018
FEARS of a hard Brexit are feeding into demand for quality industrial and logistics space for firms dealing with other EU countries, it’s claimed, as a developer pledges to fully complete a largely moth-balled and part-occupied 50-acre business park, near Cork’s Blarney. The pledge comes as new jobs are already…
October 13, 2018
The regeneration of Cork’s docklands has stepped up another gear with work underway on a €125m office block on the northern quays which will be able to accommodate more than 2,250 workers by mid-2020. John Cleary, the developer behind the Penrose Dock project near the train station, said he believes…
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…