Re: *UPDATES*
🙂 Cain White Piling & Foundations Ltd have commenced preliminary work on-site at the Kingsley Hotel at Victoria Cross/Carrigrohane Straight Road. The work heralds the beginning of construction for the Rathmelton Investments 50m euro hotel, aparthotel and student accomodation development – designed by Murray O’Laoire.
The development will provide one of the largest student developments in, not only Cork, but the country as a whole – with 116 apartments (515 bedrooms) in an arrangement of 5-storey buildings totalling 14068sq m (over 151,000sq ft), 840sq m (9,000sq ft) of retail, restaurant and laundry facilities, over 10,000sq m (101,000sq ft) of extension space for 82 additional bedrooms to the Kingsley Hotel, 10,000sq ft of new conference facilities, 6,000sq ft of additional leisure facilities, a new 19-unit aparthotel and a massive, 2-level basement for over 740 car-parking spaces. A riverside amenity walk and recreation area will also form part of the development.
The first line of student residencies are expected to come on-stream for the UCC academic year 2005/6.
😉 Meanwhile, directly across the road from the Kingsley Hotel, Michael & James O’Driscoll, owners of the Village Student Complex are pressing ahead with their 17 apartment extension to the existing facility.
