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.
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.
I know people who are theoretically working in Penrose Dock. In practice, many/most seem to be working from home still. So companies are taking out these expensive multi-year leases and then allowing the offices to go unused, which clearly makes no sense. You can only conclude that these companies are intending to axe WFH privileges. Slightly off topic perhaps, though relevant from the perspective of the total size of the A grade office market.
I was chatting to a delivery guy a couple of weeks ago who said 1 Albert Quay is basically a ghost town these days and id imagine the majority of staff there would have pre-corona "in office" contracts, cant imagine many post-corona businesses are able to force employees into the office especially with the complete lack of housing rentals around Cork city unless they are large scale poaching existing staff.
Not surprised. Also, some companies had only rented space in Albert Quay on a temporary basis whilst Penrose Dock was being completed. My own employer is one of those companies. Combined with the working from home issues you mentioned, I'm not surprised it's quiet over there.
I was over in One Albert Quay one day for lunch at Starbucks a little while back. Usually, that place would have been hopping at lunchtime. This time around, whilst it wasn't exactly deserted, it definitely was not a hub of activity!
As for the poaching, there's a LOT of that going around. with so few people being able to find a place to stay, companies are going after staff from their competitors in a major way. Companies that are, shall we say, economical when it comes to raising salaries or improving their benefits packages, are particularly vulnerable to this. Hell, you can barely get French or Spanish employees these days whereas before, they'd have been everywhere. Forget about some of the rarer language employees like Germans or Dutch...
That wouldn't have anything to do with a serious shortage of accomodation and it's price ?
Tellus (voxpro as was ) are are closing departments in cork and sending them overseas..
SHD application for 489 apartments at Jacob's Island
^ To avoid confusion, that SHD is separate to the 2018 SHD with the 25 storey tower
Glasheen Rd, Glasheen.
(400m East of Flannery's pub)
The building/workshop has been knocked, and a there's fencing and a digger on site...
Not sure what's planned, and it's not an easy place to pull in...hadn't seen anything , so it might be a modest enough development.
Where is the land in kilbarry the gaa have sold for housing?
Id say some goings on with abp with the guy resigning a friend of simon coveney.
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The Glasheen Road site has a builder's sign with "Murphys New Homes" on it. Can't be more than two houses on that site.
The old entrance to Delaneys GAA club.
Pass the Grotto in Balckpool going out the OLd Mallow road, turn right at the lights, under the train bridge and up the hill around 1.5km, on the right.
Know it well used to work in the industrial estate.
There doesn’t seem to be any progress on the Prism site. Am I correct?
ABP have given this fast track approval:
Tiznow (Comer group) already have application with ABP for larger development for site in blue.
https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-40851053.html
This is from one of the planning docs - I presume that planning for Templeford site has lapsed?
[edit] http://planning.corkcity.ie/AppFileRefDetails/1034546/0 -> Can't see any movement since this on planning site.
There is work ongoing on site alright. It does seem really slow but they had a mobile crane on site during the week.
Does anyone if Janeville will have more phases?
Ya according to this article they are going for 1,000 homes total https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/residential/arid-40374149.html
In other news fairly substantial rumours that the prism won’t go beyond the basement as construction is scheduled to stop. Also piling has started on the Marriott hotel on the long vacant Camden Quay site.
A shame if the Prism gets canned. I wonder what that means for the Custom House development? It's the same developers I think.
Why is construction scheduled to stop??
Planning approved for hotel and office block on Jacob's Island
16 - hotel. 17 -office block.
I doubt that the nearby tech companies in City Gate would provide enough business to sustain a 165-bed hotel, and you’d have to wonder what tourist would want to stay in a hotel miles from the city centre, even if it does offer stunning views over the N40 to beautiful Mahon Point. So the business model must anticipate a lot of…ahem…short occupancy business.
The filling station opp. McDonald's on Kinsale Rd has closed
The pumps and canopy are gone and the site looks to be cleared out. The shop is closed. Any ideas? It's a big site......
This has been approved subject to conditions
I’d guess a lot of the industrial companies would fill this up in a flash with corporate travel. You’ve access from there to little island and ringaskiddy, both are fairly poorly served by hotels.
Yeah maybe you’re right. Personally, if I was staying somewhere that was going to be a taxi ride from wherever I needed to be at 9am, I’d as soon stay in the city centre or somewhere with a bit of life.
Yeah, I get you. Industrial jobs rarely start at 9am though, it's more likely 7am they head in for, and people from other cultures don't always appreciate our night culture as they have nothing like it at home.
