Re: Camden Wharf and other stuff!
🙂 John (Jack!) Hornibrook/Hornibrook Holdings 58-unit residential development over basement car-park and retail and restaurant units along Carrolls Quay and Camden Quay is coming to completion. The project was one of the first to get going in the rejuvenation of this area but has been snagged with numerous construction problems along the way. The project has been on site for near on 2 years w/ PJ Hegarty & Sons Ltd as the main contractor. Deisgn is by J.E. Keating and Associates – also the firm behind East Douglas Village and Seanna Mhuilleann along the Blackpool By-pass (see post a few pages back for image). Here’s a look at the final design – it’s a whopper of an image so forgiveness please!
😉 I’ve been told that the tenders received for the Doyle Family warehousing along Albert Quay (across the river from City Quarter and No.5 & 6 Lapps Quay – and adjacent to the Eglinton Street and WebWorks development) ranged from between 5 and 7.5m euros for approx. 14 offers. DTZ Sherry FitzGerald secretly have pretty much closed the deal – but it has not been made public or officiated yet. I am aware that Howard Holdings, O’Flynn Construction & apparently O’Brien & O’Flynn (oddly!) were among the initial bidders – however I haven’t managed to find out the final successful bidder. But I am looking into it. The development potential for this excellently located site is sky-high – although the chances are that it will go the office route in line with the rest of the area (which has become Cork’s most sought after office district).
– it was interesting to see the Evening Echo led with the McCarthy Developments’ 100,000sq ft, 8-storey office development for Centre Park Road (as mentioned last week on this thread) – the article quotes Tom McCarthy apparently indicating the 25m euro MOLA designed project could create up to 1,000 jobs. I wonder.
@Radioactiveman wrote:
CCC have applied a Compulsory Purchase Order to no.’s 67-68 Shandon Street. They’re the two buildings immediately to the right of O’Connors Bros. Funeral Home as you look from the Gate Cinema.
Funny, they just came on the market with Christy’s sibling, Andy Moore handling joint sale. Agreed though, they’re an eyesore. That’s a problem with Cork, it has all these derelict buildings but 95% of them are all protected and CCC won’t let a finger touch them. Then it gives out about them being derelict. Cork logic.
