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Cork developments

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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DM-BM

Was that place not a carpet shop in the 90s?

thejuggler

If memory serves there is/was a “wet house” nearby on Leitrim Street.

Owen

Apogee wrote: »

http://planning.corkcity.ie/AppFileRefDetails/2140106/0

Anyone happen to know what these buildings were previously used for?

Copyquip were there for the longest time.

marno21

SHD going in next week for the last undeveloped site at Victoria Cross

https://twitter.com/CorkCraneCount/status/1388896062828593155

Meursault

All great news on the construction front in Cork lately. Where are the builders going to come from!!

marno21

Meursault wrote: »

All great news on the construction front in Cork lately. Where are the builders going to come from!!

When we reopen the pubs a few might come home from London

jackrussel

Is there anything ever going to happen with the old nemo gaa site?

marno21

https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/developmentconstruction/arid-40282310.html

Article on new SHD at Kelleher’s Auto Centre at Victoria Cross.

They say their second site further up the Victoria Cross Road is to be on site by year end

They also have plans for a BTR apartment development that’s “central enough”

questionmark?

marno21 wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/developmentconstruction/arid-40282310.html

Article on new SHD at Kelleher’s Auto Centre at Victoria Cross.

They say their second site further up the Victoria Cross Road is to be on site by year end

They also have plans for a BTR apartment development that’s “central enough”

Good to see. If student apartments go anywhere this is the perfect spot really.

Wonder where the centrel BTR site will be?

TheChizler

questionmark? wrote: »

Good to see. If student apartments go anywhere this is the perfect spot really.

Wonder where the centrel BTR site will be?

I would hope they have some public access on the ground floors, most of these student developments add to dead street frontage.

marno21

questionmark? wrote: »

Good to see. If student apartments go anywhere this is the perfect spot really.

Wonder where the centrel BTR site will be?

They put in a SHD consultation at the end of last year for 161 build to rent apartments beside the Blackpool Shopping Centre. Given that it’ll be beside a future railway station perhaps that’s “central enough”

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marno21 wrote: »

They put in a SHD consultation at the end of last year for 161 build to rent apartments beside the Blackpool Shopping Centre. Given that it’ll be beside a future railway station perhaps that’s “central enough”

That's been a future railway station since before the shopping centre was put in

opus

Spotted this pic on the hoarding by the Mercy hospital this morning, definitely not was I was expecting.

https://twitter.com/Treb_Cork/status/1390043775788064772

polaris68

Looks great - very striking.

I think there used be a pub there until the mid- eighties which was demolished after the Mercy purchased it.

They've had prefabs on it for almost 30 years.

Mav11

opus wrote: »

Spotted this pic on the hoarding by the Mercy hospital this morning, definitely not was I was expecting.

https://twitter.com/Treb_Cork/status/1390043775788064772

Great design looks fantastic, gets away from the blandness.

shnaek

I looks like it leans out in that photo, but if you look at the buildings around it they are all made to look like they lean out too. It's not an accurate rendering - I think it might well look bland enough in reality.

snotboogie

Hoarding up around the Victoria Hotel. Notice says construction has started. Hard to believe considering its probably the most important vacant site on Patrick's Street and de paper have said nothing. The same local media who wet themselves over anything happening on Panna, they'll run a front page on an ice cream shop opening there and have 24 hour teasers on twitter for "planning coming soon" on Penny's.

More details from a 2019 article here: https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40149899.html also notable that this had probably the most standard objection process ever with An Taisce and John Grace appealing to ABP before being thrown out.

opus

I really hope that plan for a little open park here goes ahead as I get to see this depressing view way too often. A perma-boarded up patch of wasteland, with a falling down shed behind it & of course the ugly car park that looks more like a burnt out building.

questionmark?

opus wrote: »

I really hope that plan for a little open park here goes ahead as I get to see this depressing view way too often. A perma-boarded up patch of wasteland, with a falling down shed behind it & of course the ugly car park that looks more like a burnt out building.

That car park has to be one of the ugliest buildings in Ireland never mind Cork!!

igCorcaigh

questionmark? wrote: »

That car park has to be one of the ugliest buildings in Ireland never mind Cork!!

It ruins what otherwise is quite an attractive area. Even the cop shop is a lovely building.

I didn't know about the plans for the scrap area, good to hear about after years of neglect.

snotboogie

Pic of the Victoria Hotel hoarding:https://twitter.com/torban69/status/1391010715692150788?s=19

the beer revolu

igCorcaigh wrote: »

It ruins what otherwise is quite an attractive area. Even the cop shop is a lovely building.

I didn't know about the plans for the scrap area, good to hear about after years of neglect.

The public toilets there is a really interesting building, too.
Also, there's a lovely old arched gate tucked in behind Supermac's, too.

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opus wrote: »

I really hope that plan for a little open park here goes ahead as I get to see this depressing view way too often. A perma-boarded up patch of wasteland, with a falling down shed behind it & of course the ugly car park that looks more like a burnt out building.

Why is it that other cities can keep their quay walls clean. I'm not talking about the fucus, I mean above the water line

Itssoeasy

Deleted User wrote: »

Why is it that other cities can keep their quay walls clean. I'm not talking about the fucus, I mean above the water line

Looks shabby enough. When was the last time that slipway(may not be the correct term) was used ? Cork city has huge potential if there was just a bit of Joined up thinking. That space above is going to waste.

Shedite27

snotboogie wrote: »

Pic of the Victoria Hotel hoarding:https://twitter.com/torban69/status/1391010715692150788?s=19

I used to love Pizzaland
https://twitter.com/RandomCorkStuff/status/754401934090629124/photo/1

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the beer revolu

Shedite27 wrote: »

I used to love Pizzaland
https://twitter.com/RandomCorkStuff/status/754401934090629124/photo/1

Do you remember Davill's 32 flavours ice cream in that unit? Or, rather it was a unit between burgerland and Pizzaland that got incorporated into Burgerland, first as their own ice cream parlor and then it became extra seating for burgerland. (the original door into Burgerland would have been to the left of where it is in that pic)
That was a big deal at the time.

whisky_galore

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Why is it that other cities can keep their quay walls clean. I'm not talking about the fucus, I mean above the water line

It'll be shiny new concrete soon enough if OPW have their way.

Treehelpplease

it's such a shame the old ground floor was ripped out. does anyone know if the Swamp unit next to it, now pandora, was ever part of the Hotel? They're very similar architecturally

Kerry25x

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40284917.html?fbclid=IwAR2HywpI7c2xXMYfn86ruYYBgen3i__hPHR11kLGD-8yui0giGN4-8YwggI

Proposals to turn the old Hilsers Jewelers into public toilets are being protested against by English Market traders.

I actually feel the city could benefit from spacious, supervised, well maintained public toilet facilities, theres a real lack of options at the moment.

[Deleted User]

Kerry25x wrote: »

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40284917.html?fbclid=IwAR2HywpI7c2xXMYfn86ruYYBgen3i__hPHR11kLGD-8yui0giGN4-8YwggI

Proposals to turn the old Hilsers Jewelers into public toilets are being protested against by English Market traders.

I actually feel the city could benefit from spacious, supervised, well maintained public toilet facilities, theres a real lack of options at the moment.

We do need it but I can see the issues, from an optics perspective, of a massive toilet right between the two entry points of an open air food market.

Health wise it would be of no concern but just the message it projects...