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🙂 The Conway-family controlled Frinailla Developments are to lodge plans for a site on the Tramore Road they purchased earlier this year from Kanturk-based John Keating. The former Keatings Bakery is now set to see 96 prime new residential units realised over 5-storeys and basement car-parking in an interesting design by Kiosk Architects. Of the 96 units, 16x 1-bedroom, 56x 2-bedroom, 10x 2-bedroom duplex, 12x 3-bedroom and 2x 3-bedroom duplexes will be included – provision for a new creche will also form part of the scheme. Before the purchase by Frinailla, Mr. Keating himself had plans to develop an apartment scheme over 4-individual blocks and basement parking – however the application was withdrawn in light of the sale.
🙂 The prime office block that is Gardner House is to come on the market through joint agents Lisney and Davin Auctioneers, acting on behalf of Ellier Developments. The 6-storey office block is fully let with PriceWaterHouse Coopers occupying approx. 50% of the current floorspace. Gardner House occupies a gateway location at a pivotal corner facing the Cork Docklands at the eastern mouth of South Mall – the city’s primary business district. The building is guiding at €7.75m and represents a significant investment opportunity with p.a. rents in excess of €330,000 – and a review on rent due shortly. The review is likely to see yields increase from over 3.75% to approx. 5% over the course of the prospective future. Furthermore, those keen on maximising their investment may also take advantage of possible refurbishment opportunities to the building which could accommodate a possible recessed vertical extension of 1-floor (additional office space or even perhaps a restaurant facility???), recladded elevations and even a minor extension facing the quays to accommodate additional office space and possible retail/cafe/commercial provisions on the quayside in a CityQuarter-esque boardwalk/pedestrian quayside provision (subject to negotiation with CCC). The utilisation of this quayside would represent an attractive addition to this location in light of on-going development in the area and improvements to the urban realm. Such a development would be poised to take advantage of the significant business and student traffic in the area which will only enhance as the years proceed. One only has to consider proposals at Eglinton Street, Clontarf Street Area, Parnell Place, Albert Quay, the School of Music and so on to realise the potential for such improvement.
lexington wrote:🙂 The Conway-family controlled Frinailla Developments are to lodge plans for a site on the Tramore Road they purchased earlier this year from Kanturk-based John Keating. {/QUOTE]wow, nice move frinailla – always amazed how some people cant get planning and sell on a site and developers are very confident of getting planning then – saw site alright, superb access off south ring road.
😮 O’Shea Leader Consulting Engineers are to redevelop a former warehousing site along Monahan’s Road in the south docklands. Monahan Road Development Limited, the SPV handling the project which was designed in-house, will seek permission to develop a 5-storey office building over basement car-parking on a site approx. 1-acre in total area which was sold through DTZ Sherry Fitzgerald for a figure believed to be in the region of about €2m. The development represents a further step in the rejuvenation of this area of the docklands – and the prospects of this were noted here many pages ago and also just recently in a brief review of the South Docklands a few posts up. Ascon Contractors are completing a further business & technology building of approx. 45,000sq ft only a small step away from the offices of O’Shea Leader at Cleve Business Park – meanwhile, SHUL Developers will be looking for planning in the coming future for an additional 150,000sq ft of office and commercial development on a 3-acre site nearby, with Wilson Architecture handling designs there. Meanwhile Niall Doris’ Nat Ross site is due for a planning decision on May 10th 2006 regarding his SDA O’Flynn designed (predominantly) residential scheme recently scaled back at the behest of planners.
Bird’s Eye image of the subject site along Monahan’s RoadSo are things moving again?? Suppose the market had got its groove back now and hopefully this will pave the way for more exciting building developments soon.
Interesting to hear about Frinilla and the Keatings bakery. Any pics of the scheme yet?? I like Frinillas stuff. They seem to be a little more willing when it comes to deisgn but i still think Victoria cross is expensive. Anyone hear anything about Water street yet? Any photos of the changes to the scheme??
And I read today that the Oyster bar is for sale again after a deal fell through with Joe O’Donovan. I cant wait to see the design for the shopping centre he has planned. If Academy street is going for larger units it leaves plenty of room for this plan to take in more medium sized retail spaces and maybe a department store like House of Fraser or Arnotts or something. Hope they take in the Post office building on Grand parade too, otherwise the centre will look lobsided when viewed down Washington street.
Werdna Limited (Applicant)
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@bunch wrote:
Werdna Limited (Applicant)
Werdna Limited (Appellant)
05/29379
Case is due to be decided by 06-06-2006
And it goes on and on and on…
June? The appeal will have been in the process well over a year at that stage. And its spend the same going through Cork city council. 🙁
@ewankennedy wrote:
And I read today that the Oyster bar is for sale again after a deal fell through with Joe O’Donovan. I cant wait to see the design for the shopping centre he has planned. If Academy street is going for larger units it leaves plenty of room for this plan to take in more medium sized retail spaces and maybe a department store like House of Fraser or Arnotts or something.
I could stand corrected here but a good source told me he doesn’t own very many of the properties he wants to include yet. Now that the plans are known it will have driven up the prices so remains to be seem what he can buy. Academy Street decision will be delayed by two months I’m told – Further info required.
@jdivision wrote:
I could stand corrected here but a good source told me he doesn’t own very many of the properties he wants to include yet. Now that the plans are known it will have driven up the prices so remains to be seem what he can buy. Academy Street decision will be delayed by two months I’m told – Further info required.
Thanks jdivision. i think the O’Donovan plan looks to be one of the more exciting redevelopment schemes anywhere in Ireland given its location right between 2 of among the most prime streets in the country. I look forward to seeing how it turns out…and the Capital razed! 😉 But I would like to see the facades at the Central shoes place and the frontage on Patricks street kept in any new design.
Did you find out anymore about O’Flynns seeking to buy the Anglesea street Garda station land to the rear on Eglinton street or is it all a bit of urban fluff??
Oh and also when is O’Callaghans going in for planning with Lavitts quay does any body know?? After the hotel design I’m anxious to see what they come up with?
I hear reports today that the new terminal building at Cork Airport will not open until “early June”.
I wonder what the delay is? Could it be due to unions throwing their weight around or are the shops/restaurants not going to be ready for May as planned?
ewankennedy wrote:Did you find out anymore about O’Flynns seeking to buy the Anglesea street Garda station land to the rear on Eglinton street or is it all a bit of urban fluff??Quote:his people are denying it@jdivision wrote:
@ewankennedy wrote:
Did you find out anymore about O’Flynns seeking to buy the Anglesea street Garda station land to the rear on Eglinton street or is it all a bit of urban fluff??
his people are denying it
Must be all a bit of urban fluff so after all. Its a pity cos it would be such a good proposition with O’Flynns getting a prime site just across the way from their Eglinton street. The guards getting a nice cash injection and possibly much need parking space at basement levels and the city gaining a more consistent building pattern in the area rather than a sore looking gap in such a prominent street corner. Thanks though.
Speaking of the guards i wonder if any development at Kyrls quay will affect them in the Bridewell station. Lex said a few weeks back the iron providers site was up for sale. I read somewhere that it was selling for 5 million euro. Any one know how the dale is goin or have any details on it?? I hope any developer buying it takes in the corporation sites next door and that old Philips warehouse on the quay. It would make such an amazing development opportunity.
Marks and Spenser’s are about to seek planning for extensive alterations to their shopfront on St. Patrick Street. This will include new windows, doors and signage.
This is right across the street from where SCHUH are about to start work on their new store.@corkdood wrote:
I hear reports today that the new terminal building at Cork Airport will not open until “early June”.
I wonder what the delay is? Could it be due to unions throwing their weight around or are the shops/restaurants not going to be ready for May as planned?
Today’s Irish Times reports:
Statement of Cork Airport Authority last night: “due to delays in the construction programme, access to the terminal for testing and training would not be possible until May 8th.” Hence opening of terminal for operational purposes not before early June. “As the terminal completion dates become more definitive, an operational date will be advised.”
“Informed sources have told The Irish Times that the authority is pushing to have the building opened before the end of June, as trying to train and transfer staff in July and August would be extremely difficult.”So basically the training that should have and nearly could have been done in the last month was put off…. Only in Ireland
@Radioactiveman wrote:
Marks and Spenser’s are about to seek planning for extensive alterations to their shopfront on St. Patrick Street. This will include new windows, doors and signage.
This is right across the street from where SCHUH are about to start work on their new store.It’s good to see that M&S are taking an interest in their store (which is the most profitable one in Ireland) by keeping it modern and up to date….. there are a lot more shops in Cork that are worse off, others will wait until there is a sign about to fall down and injure someone before they would update/replace it. When is Schuh due to open, the one in on O’ Connell Street is very popular.
@Hafez wrote:
Today’s Irish Times reports:
Statement of Cork Airport Authority last night: “due to delays in the construction programme, access to the terminal for testing and training would not be possible until May 8th.” Hence opening of terminal for operational purposes not before early June. “As the terminal completion dates become more definitive, an operational date will be advised.”
“Informed sources have told The Irish Times that the authority is pushing to have the building opened before the end of June, as trying to train and transfer staff in July and August would be extremely difficult.”So basically the training that should have and nearly could have been done in the last month was put off…. Only in Ireland
What a joke that is, it probably won’t be open until September in the end. I heard that they were going to use it as an Arrivals Terminal only, for the first few weeks of it’s operation. I think some are refusing to go in there until the whole “who’ll pay the debt” thing has been sorted out.
Passing UCC the other day – I thought I’d pop in and see how work was progressing on the UCC Postgraduate Research Library extension to the Boole Library. It struck me walking around the Boole Library building (which was thronged with stressed students ahead of their summer exams) how odd a structure it is. Designed by Murray Murray Petit Architects and constrcucted on the site of an old quarry by PJ Hegarty & Sons Limited in 1983, the library (the largest stock library outside of Dublin at almost 130,000sq ft over 5-levels), is an outstandingly blocky and often bland panelled contraption – and yet somehow despite all this, it to me at least, is quite an eye-catching piece. The northern elevation is attractively curtained by century-old trees – and acts as a nice buffer between the library and splendid Quadrangle building and gardens. The Boole is stacked to the south and west elevations with reverse recess levels jutting further out as the floors mount – the effect of such a heavy structure is particularly prominent to the south where it seemingly plunges to basement level ever-so-slightly revealed by the remnants of the quarry floor – now a depressed courtyard allowing access to the Boole lecture theatres at basement level. Here, a more restrained tree-pattern divides the Boole between it and the period housing terraces that line College Road. The hard-landscaping around the Boole is patterned with a striking red-brick ‘plaza’ area which wraps around the Boole Library building itself and offers a striking contrast to the grey-panel cladding of the library building – this cladding is selectively interjected with rows of glazing particularly evident to the south and west. Around the rim of the library level (Q+3) – acting as a break between the hard elevations and roof-top plant area (relatively concealed by the buildings mass) – an ever so slightly diagonally lined skylight provides a nice source of natural light to the interior study areas.
The eastern elevation is currently the subject of the extensive construction work being undertaken by contractors McNamara Construction and designed jointly by Shepley Bulfinch Richardson and Abbott Architects (SBRA) of Boston and Wilson Architecture (Cork). UCC received public and private funding totalling €28.7M for the construction of the 7,700sqm of new library space – and so far, work has progressed well with a scheduled open date for September 2007. McNamara Construction have commenced work on the Q+3 level – and to their credit, kept the public areas around the site seemingly very well order given the complexities of the work.
Construction images as of late March 2006.
A view of the southern aspect of the new extension facing College Road.
From the south tower crane facing north toward the heart of the college campus.
Northern end of the extension, with the main Boole Library building in the background.
The finished product – northern elevation fronting onto pedestrian “Student Avenue”.It is quite evident from assessing the form of the extension that its design has been heavily influenced with respect to prominent tree patterns dotted around the library area. The extension essentially weaves between historic tree locations. Finished elevations will be a mix of copper and red-sandstone materials.
All images posted the copyright of University College Cork/Boole Library.
Just touching on the subject of Michael McNamara Construction – the company, involved with Brooklyn Properties in realising Phase 2 of Cork Airport Business Park (which continues to attract some prominent tenants) is at an advanced stage of construction on the 149-bedroom (figuring including 12 suites) hotel element designed, as with the rest of Phase 2, by Ashlin Coleman Architects.
The tower crane has been down for sometime now and completion is expected for late-May.
Meanwhile, it is speculated (and I carefully note that word for the time being) and noted previously before, that Bernard McNamara’s construction and development group are evaluating possible development options closer in the city proper. Lest it fail to materialise in the form indicated to me, I will hold back on mentioning anything further and see how things play out. Remember, thats speculative.
Lex, I was actually hoping that UCC were going to completely renovate the Boole library considering the addition to the side which they are making.
They could at least do something to the outside which to me is just so ugly. New panelling wouldn’t be too expensive and would make the building look so much better, especially considering that its beside Aras Ui Rahilly which looks so much better.
@Hafez wrote:
Hey, Just wondering is there any news on what’s happening with the Esso site on the Douglas road. It has been sitting there since before christmas without much work at all. Is it going to stay a petrol station or car garage or will it be changed into something residential. Hopefully not, it’s a prime location for a petrol station and did absolutely huge business!
Also, Any news on Pc World and Currys coming to Mahon Point. And what’s happening with the new industrial type place built by Pizza Hut and KFC in Little Island.
Cheers
I read that the Douglas Esso was suppose to remain as a petrol station but I’ve heard different from a couple of people. It may even just include a bit of site reorganisation with commercial elements, and maybe still a petrol station, complimenting a larger development which would have residential parts to it too.
Dunno about PC world or Currys but they are suppose to be going there sometime. and as far as I know Little island is being built by the O’Flynns. They say they have tenants lined up i think.
@Micko wrote:
Lex, I was actually hoping that UCC were going to completely renovate the Boole library considering the addition to the side which they are making.
They could at least do something to the outside which to me is just so ugly. New panelling wouldn’t be too expensive and would make the building look so much better, especially considering that its beside Aras Ui Rahilly which looks so much better.
I MUST disagree the Boole is one of the best buildings in UCC and has aged quite well. Maybe the interior could do with a revamp but the exterior is just fine. It’s such a solid building but fits into the quad quite well. I’m sure I’m not alone. The Ui Rahilly building that you refer to is one of the poorer additions to UCC and its cladding that you seem to likw so much is tat. Anyway leave the Boole alone! It’s a Classic!
@ewankennedy wrote:
I read that the Douglas Esso was suppose to remain as a petrol station but I’ve heard different from a couple of people. It may even just include a bit of site reorganisation with commercial elements, and maybe still a petrol station, complimenting a larger development which would have residential parts to it too.
Dunno about PC world or Currys but they are suppose to be going there sometime. and as far as I know Little island is being built by the O’Flynns. They say they have tenants lined up i think.
cheers for that 😮 😮
@anto wrote:
I MUST disagree the Boole is one of the best buildings in UCC and has aged quite well. Maybe the interior could do with a revamp but the exterior is just fine. It’s such a solid building but fits into the quad quite well. I’m sure I’m not alone. The Ui Rahilly building that you refer to is one of the poorer additions to UCC and its cladding that you seem to likw so much is tat. Anyway leave the Boole alone! It’s a Classic!
Agreed, The Boole seems to have a lovely presence within the campus.
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