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UCC say they have never heard of this new town planning course. What faculty will it be in? And how definite is it that it will go ahead?
STEPHEN ROGERS
Property Correspondent
LE CHATEAU bar is to retain its
frontage onto Patrick Street and will be incorporated into the massive Academy Street redevelopment.O’Callaghan Properties is expected to lodge its application for the 300 million facelift of the city centre street within the next few weeks.
There had been speculation that Cork’s main street might lose the only pub with direct frontage onto it.
However, a spokesman for the developer today confirmed that while the planning application was being finalised, Le Chateau would still have the enviable plot it currently occupies.
It had been believed O’Callaghan Properties had paid a massive fee to acquire the pub, although this was always denied by the developer.
O’Callaghan Properties have now acquired or done land deals on the majority of the properties affected by the planned redevelopment, which will create 200,000 square feet of retail space, 30,000 square feet of office space and 100 apartments.
There will be no big anchor tenant in the retail element, but a number of high-order retail names will each take up to 20,000 square feet of space, with several European chain stores already expressing interest.
It is expected that once planning permission is secured for the plans, more than likely early in the new year bar objection, the development work will start.
One of the first to move out of its premises on the city centre street will be the printing section of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo, whose new home is close to completion by O’Callaghan Properties in MahonPoint.
The city manager is expecting an application from MPH for the 5,000 seater event centre and one would have thought that if he expects it, the likelihood is that it will come.
The cleared block A space is for ‘public open space according to the board. Skateboarders must be licking their lips…
One interesting fact is that the OCP will have to reapply for the bridge element. Surprisingly the objectors are all relatively in favour of the final product. Work will start on the development in June. OCP wants to ensure the work does not make too much noise when the pupils at the adjoining school are doing their exams,
But that is according to sources according to the guy who wrote it. There is nothing from the company itself apart from a no comment
