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snotboogie

I noticed that the Limerick equivalent is a very popular thread over on their forum so I thought I might get one going here. To kick things off I'll list the bigger current projects I can think of:

Under Construction

Navigation Square: Four building office development on the former Navigation House site on Albert Quay. 310,000 sq ft of office space for up to 3000 employees. First phase to be completed Feb 19'

89-90 South Mall: 50,000 sq ft office, 5 storey office building.To be completed in December 18'

Dalata Hotel South Mall: Six storey hotel, 165 beds. To be completed in December 18'

Various Student Accommodation: Western Road and Beamish site are under construction, Crows Nest has planning and should start soon, Square Deal is facing appeals, Coca-Cola site on the Carrigrohane Road has had planning for over a year but nothing has happened? O’Riordans Joinery, Gillen House on Farranlea Road, Model Farm Road/Melbourne Road and Copely Street are all at various stages of planning and/or limbo.

Planning/Appealed

Horgan's Quay: Office Space for 5,000 employees, 200 apartments, 136 bed hotel and 3000 sq metres of restaurants and retail. Got planning permission in March but it was appealed by Port of Cork. Uncertain when the final decision will be. Construction on the Hotel will hopefully begin in Q4 this year with the office and apartments commencing in 2019.

Sullivan's Quay: 6 storey Office & 193 bed 4 star Hotel. Planning granted and immediately appealed. Given that demolition is nearly complete I'd expect this to go into construction as soon as planning is granted. Potential hold up over the height of the hotel, at 12 storeys and 47 metres, it is set to make the top 20 tallest buildings in the state if completed. An Taisce not happy.

Former Victoria Hotel: Knocking much of the Victoria and rebuilding to the back and refurbishing the original historic front/facade and to integrate the two sections into a new high order retail unit, of 25,000 sq ft, over four floors. Rumoured to be taken over by Zara. Planning granted in Feb, nothing happened on site since.

Metropole Redevelopment: €50m redevelopment of the Metropole Hotel to include a new five-storey boutique hotel on Patrick's Quay. Planning granted with amendments in March. No date for work to start.

Wilton Shopping Centre: €100 million revamp proposed. Mistake made in planning permission. In the process of resubmitting.

In Limbo

Event Centre: 6000 all seater multi purpose event centre with a tourist brewery experience. Arguably the most controversial construction project in the history of the city. After a bleak 6 months at the back end of 2017 there have been two instances of positive murmurs from the Government and BAM in January 2018 and April 2018. Construction allegedly to start in Q4 2018 but there are still conflicting and contradictory statements from all parties involved. Most would be shocked to see this start in 2018.

Anderson Quay/Camden Quay/Trinity Quarter: All have had planning for years with no work on site. Camden Quay allegedly had some work going on last week but I'd be shocked if it was related to the actual construction. I can't see any of these sites being developed as per their current proposals.

Concept/Pre Planning

Docklands Tower: 40 storey mixed use tower with the redevelopment of the existing customs house warehouses into cultural, tourist and retail space. By a mile the most ambitious development in Ireland. Announced over one year ago and no sign of a planning permission application yet, allegedly waiting for the Docklands development plan this summer to rezone heights for the site. If we don't see a planning application by the end of the year I'd be worried.

Ford Distribution Depot: Put on sale last week. Former site of the extremely ambitious Atlantic Quarter. Major development opportunity

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MrDerp

snotboogie wrote: »

OCP have essentially confirmed that Anderson Quay won't go ahead as planned. they are looking to build apartments on site if regulations become more favorable. Unfortunately I doubt this decision will change their mind.

If I were them I’d be waiting for planning to go ahead for the custom house development, then put in for high rise based on adjacent heights.

Seamai

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

Just back from the Tramore valley Park, Holy f*ck it's rich calling that place a park.

How on earth did it cost 40m?

Gravel paths, no trees, no flowers, no lights, minimal signs of where to go, no playground, no fountain, no bins, no cut grass

I could keep going on, it's abysmal.

I was was thinking the same when I saw the new park in Hawlboline, what have they got against trees?

vinnie_cork

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

Just back from the Tramore valley Park, Holy f*ck it's rich calling that place a park.

How on earth did it cost 40m.

€39,900,000 was spent on the former dump works piping gasses and layers of barriers and topsoil covering.... the park is just a byproduct... Haulbowlan €10m development again most of that on cleaning the site.

Both sites can never be built on... only option was public park. I haven’t visited either but no naive enough to think the €40m & €10m was spent on nice things for amenities.

namloc1980

Seamai wrote: »

I was was thinking the same when I saw the new park in Hawlboline, what have they got against trees?

The park in Haulbowline has an infinitely better finish than Tramore. They're incomparable really.

vinnie_cork

namloc1980 wrote: »

The park in Haulbowline has an infinitely better finish than Tramore. They're incomparable really.

One is city one is county... county about to hand over their regional park on Friday. Hopefully they will take inspiration.

SteelyDanJalapeno

vinnie_cork wrote: »

€39,900,000 was spent on the former dump works piping gasses and layers of barriers and topsoil covering.... the park is just a byproduct... Haulbowlan €10m development again most of that on cleaning the site.

Both sites can never be built on... only option was public park. I haven’t visited either but no naive enough to think the €40m & €10m was spent on nice things for amenities.

Still 40m on piping and topsoil seems a little mad

vinnie_cork

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote: »

Still 40m on piping and topsoil seems a little mad

It was a toxic site. To stop contamination of groundwater and the air it’s been capped and sealed... it’s a monster of a site to have cleaned up.

lostinsuperfunk

what have they got against trees?

It's very difficult to grow trees on former landfills. The surface soil layer is shallow. Underneath this there is a "cap" to seal in the waste. There is a risk that deep tree roots will puncture the cap.

no.8

SteelyDanJalapeno wrote:

Gravel paths, no trees, no flowers, no lights, minimal signs of where to go, no playground, no fountain, no bins, no cut grass

Nothing wrong with areas of gravel. The rest would be nice though.

marno21

Good news from de paper this morning

They also said that extensive pre-planning works for their even larger €250m 34-storey tower project on the nearby Custom House site are at a very advanced stage.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/property/planning-upheld-for-15-storey-glass-fronted-office-tower-in-cork-927244.html

Apogee

snotboogie wrote: »

The Victoria Hotel has been with ABP for nearly two years...

Echo wrote:

In 2017, new owners RESAM Properties Ltd lodged plans to build a high-order retail unit on the site of the historic location. However, planners in City Hall gave the go-ahead for the redevelopment. This decision was appealed to An Bord Plean by Mr Grace and body An Taisce. However, in recent days, the organisation has upheld the council's decision allowing the development. A planning inspector said the proposed development would not seriously injure the character of the area and would not have unacceptable impacts in terms of architectural heritage.

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Corks-historic-Victoria-Hotel-is-to-be-redeveloped-c71b8ba7-2bc8-4ac9-bc3a-00e62113341b-ds

questionmark?

ABP are on a roll! More good news.

[Deleted User]

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If this is original work I could see some (a lot) of cause to keep it in any new plans.

CHealy

Did Mr. Grace really object on those grounds? A city center location?

cgcsb

Gorgeous building, obviously An Taisce want to let it rot into nothingness.

questionmark?

Deleted User wrote: »

If this is original work I could see some (a lot) of cause to keep it in any new plans.

The planning details that the ceiling is retained as well as the outside facade.

snotboogie

CHealy wrote: »

Did Mr. Grace really object on those grounds? A city center location?

Originally I thought he objected because retail would not attract night traffic to his chipper, he wanted it to be kept as a hotel.

opus

I took a walk past the development in Millerd St last night, pic below.

Also this is the 3d model of the proposed flats down the street a little.

And finally the student apartment development on the Mardyke has the site cleared now, the house came down very quick it looks like.

opus

snotboogie wrote: »

There is work being done on the mound of rubble on Sullivan's Quay. While it is an eyesore and possible health risk it may be bad news for the Events Centre as it was planned for use on site there.

Don't worry, none of the rubble has been removed, they've just levelled the pile off so that the fencing hides the ugliness. A friend of mine lives on Cove St so has a good view from their bedroom windows.

who_me

opus wrote: »

Don't worry, none of the rubble has been removed, they've just levelled the pile off so that the fencing hides the ugliness. A friend of mine lives on Cove St so has a good view from their bedroom windows.

Hah, God it must be an awful tease having so much more light and a view of the river/city centre now, knowing you're going to lose it again in a few months' time. Well, a few years' time.

snotboogie

opus wrote: »

I took a walk past the development in Millerd St last night, pic below.

Also this is the 3d model of the proposed flats down the street a little.

And finally the student apartment development on the Mardyke has the site cleared now, the house came down very quick it looks like.

What student development is that?

opus

snotboogie wrote: »

What student development is that?

This one, the house is gone now.

Rhys Essien

New coffee dock/shop on Brian Boru Street.

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Coffee-to-go-on-Corks-historic-old-rail-line-5d3287ac-e23a-413c-9451-d816d92ffa7b-ds

[Deleted User]

Rhys Essien wrote: »

New coffee dock/shop on Brian Boru Street.

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Coffee-to-go-on-Corks-historic-old-rail-line-5d3287ac-e23a-413c-9451-d816d92ffa7b-ds

I was all ready to say "another bloody soulless coffee store" but that is a busy pedestrian commute walkway, not the worst thing in the world to put there

Rhys Essien

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I was all ready to say "another bloody soulless coffee store" but that is a busy pedestrian commute walkway, not the worst thing in the world to put there

Like many other places that whole block is crying out for development.

snotboogie

opus wrote: »

This one, the house is gone now.

how many apartments are going in there?

snotboogie

Rhys Essien wrote: »

New coffee dock/shop on Brian Boru Street.

https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/Coffee-to-go-on-Corks-historic-old-rail-line-5d3287ac-e23a-413c-9451-d816d92ffa7b-ds

Going by the last line:

A planning decision is also awaited on a microbrewery in the nearby Thompson House on MacCurtain Street

it looks like the decision for the Cotton Ball is coming soon. Would be great for MacCurtain St. I wonder when the works will start on the new Micro Distillery at the Bodega? That got planning in March

opus

snotboogie wrote: »

how many apartments are going in there?

Don't remember it was last year sometime I happened to read the planning notice that was on there. Given the location I'd imagine no more than three stories max anyway.

snotboogie

Another big approval:

Parnell Place Hotel gets the green light from ABP

[Deleted User]

Picture that image next to the Prism and all of a sudden that area is looking very nice.