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A failure to capitalise of the improvements that were made. We let the infrastructure go from great to below average very quickly. It isn’t that Eircom lack innovation – it is that their system is out of date and any improvements require catch up. Landlines aren’t just about voice services.
Oh oh – Heatons and Shaws are “department stores”… if they moved in to Guy’s that would cement Cornmarket St/North Main St area’s reputation as decidedly low rent.
CCC need to be careful what kind of retail operator get’s in. High quality international tenants are required at that end of Pat St if the area is to stand a fighting chance. Insisting on “department store” might be unwise, as it’s Cork we’re talking about. Selfridges are hardly banging on the door!Hmmm – yes, but if they said it would cost a billion euro…?!?
Drumcondra would be helped no end by a landmark solid gold 100m statue of Bertie, cost is no issue!
We are alot more American than we were. Alot of people don’t go near the city centre anymore. Liffey Valley, Blanchardstown and soon Dundrum will take care of their weekend afternoons.
Lexington – is that part of Cork facing student accommodation overkill? It seems that end of UCC was bereft for years and suddenly everyone is jumping on the wagon. A student ghetto???
Kefu – the statue at the Dublin Side was earmarked under the original plan to be moved from there and the local gutter press organised an outcry. So the design was compromised from day one.
Personally I think the Patrick St redevelopment is excellent – it has a bit of character while I feel the new O’Conn St has a dreary corporate clinical feel to it. The lights tend to polarise opinion – but at least they are a unique feature to this street and not something picked out of a catalogue. The paving is high quality – but as with most public areas in this country – it has been allowed to get filthy.
O’Connell St is the widest street in the world??? Don’t make me laugh – sure we all know it’s South Mall in Cork!!!
Graham, I think the Westin lighting job is superb. True there has to actually be equipment mounted to actually illuminate the building (!), but the effect at night I feel is to accent the cut stone beautifully. The building has a dual indentity (day + night). I prefer that lighting job to the near sodium floodlight overkill that seems to be the course of action elsewhere (BOI – cough)
Fair point.
I have some knowledge of some of the schemes he mentioned and would classify some of them of very high quality, while some were possibly less so.
Devin, this building’s PP would have come from Cork County Council and not the City Council. An T Corcaigh don’t seem to show the same rabid obsession with Douglas that they do with the city centre – an effect of this is that Douglas “village” is a monstrous quasi strip mall while Cork City Centre is deprived economic activity.
I do not particularly like this building either – but would not use it as justification for An T Corcaigh’s behaviour in other local authority areas.I think with ESB you’re allowed half a kilometre from the main power lines, thereafter you pay a contribution. I don’t think you’ll pay 100% costs in any case. No matter what way you look at it – it is fundamentally unfair to charge the same for a house that needs only a cable up a driveway from the area transformer to a house that needs an extension to the main power line and additional poles and an individual power transformer.
Diaspora – you’re bang on about the storm situation. I believe ESB have more overhead km’s than the UK!!!The Examiner are terrible for putting their Commercial Property news online. Just the Residential Stuff.
With regard to cost of infrastructure – the cost of getting hooked up to electricty is the same whether you live in urban or rural for a single house. We live in a regulated market, and everyone has to be treated equal according to the regulator. It costs ALOT MORE to construct the services to a rural house. So effectively all of the country’s electricity customers (i.e. everyone) is subsidising these one off houses.
Where the houses are built is another matter – but why should the rest of us make the ride easy for them? We’re such a friendly country we want to live as far from each other as possible. Fine – do so, but you have to pick up your own tab.I saw images in the Indo last week. Considering it will be next to the Fire and Garda stations it would hardly be difficult to stand out as quality – and yet from the images…
I guess it might be one of those projects that MIGHT turn out better it the flesh. But for that price tag – I think something a bit better could have been rustled up.
