Penrose dock now fully let. The Albert Quay Tower is scheduled to break ground in “early 2023” and the City Plaza development will have its tenants moving in this September.
Ah thats unfortunate. I've no doubt more people would use the train if that road opened, makes the walk from castlelake a lot shorter.
Yeah the road is pretty much done but it looks like it won't be opened until the new schools campus is completed which has only just started preliminary works - another 2 years probably.
Preliminary census figures out. Cork City's population is now 222,333. Cork County's, excluding the city population, is 358,898 (including both, it is 581,231 which is up from 542,868 in 2016)
Been a while since I was there alright so good to hear that's getting done up. The road to the train station was getting done too, should've been done before the houses but that'd make sense.
That apartment block is not owned by BAM anymore and it's subject to a separate application.
But it is being finished out at the moment (at last) for social and afforable housing.
Nice to see that the development might actually get finished at last. Wonder does it include the half finished apartment block there now
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Yeah Dairygold have form for letting sites under their ownership become derelict. Here's a piece from 16 years ago about it 😬
Doesn't mean it'll never happen. There's also a chance Dairygold will just sit on this.
Apartment construction for REITs is completely non existent in Cork. I don’t think there has been a single apartment constructed within the last 20 years sold to a REIT.
Sounds like the type of development a real estate fund would snap up and price out individual buyers.
Of the 609 units, only 257 are Build To Rent apartments. The rest are Build To Sell apartments and a few own door houses facing Kinsale Road (I'm not sure if the townhouses are to rent or sell)
Ideally you'd have a mix, I can understand it's a lot easier for the developer to sell in one go, so I'm all for anything that makes it easier to get built.
But as a property ladder, it's a lot easier for people to be able to buy apartments as a stepping stone to buying a house, rather than spending money on rent for however many years. Modern apartments are so expensive to buy these days I doubt they'd be in the first time buyer category anyway.
I guess Funderland will need to find a new spot!
"All of the dwellings proposed in those two buildings will be Build to Rent apartments."
Creamfields site given approval subject to conditions:
Site works I believe. Going to full construction by the end of the year. To be fair on the other three sites, the LDA are building all over the country and it’s going to take them time to ramp up. In the mean time the Housing for All incentives for private developers simply have to work. With Apple, Facebook and Pharma all expanding in and around the city over the next few years the market is going to be absolute carnage in Cork.
Anyone know whats happening with the St Kevin's Asylum site the LDA own?
They got planning for that over a year ago!
I know, but you'd have to wonder even if they had planning now could they get them built before then, with all the shortages of labour and materials?
Only going to planning stages in 2026, so no housing until 2030 at the earliest? I cannot fathom this as they have aquired most of, if not all the lands. The pace is just mind-blowing tvh.
From the front of the Irish Times this morning are plans for the development of LDA sites around the city:
Kilbarry: 1500 homes Q3 2026
South Docks: 800 - 1000 homes Q2 2026
Tivoli: 2500 homes Q4 2026
Going back to planners with request for changes
However, an application has now been made seeking permission to make some changes to the development, including the omission of the rooftop restaurant, bar waiting area, kitchen, store, toilets and services areas to be replaced by 10 additional long-stay suites.
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40882877.html
Cork City Council is set to spend millions buying the Port of Cork’s city-centre quays to help facilitate one of the largest docklands regeneration schemes in Europe.
The local authority and the commercial semi-State company have reached an “agreement in principle” that will see the council acquiring around 1.5km of quayside along the city's north and south docks following the relocation of the port company’s city centre operations to its expanded facilities downstream at Ringaskiddy.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/cork-city-council-signs-multi-million-euro-deal-to-buy-port-of-cork_arid-40880273.html
Official opening on Sunday.
Similar styling alright. Never saw it when it was anything like the above, before my time (I hope!)
I know the interior of the Jack and Jones shop - which I believe is also being incorporated - is very nice and I assume that's being retained too.
Both are equally vaguely memorable. Mother must have had me in and out of both shops quite a bit.😁😁
S'funny - the earlier image was tagged as the Munster Arcade, though I've found another version of the first image tagged as QOC in 1948
Let's try again...
Yup
Isn't that image of the Queen's Old Castle?
