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@corkdood wrote:

I can’t speak for the whole country but I know the former ESB shops in Cork City and Ballincollig are still vacant and BOS have moved into a new new in the main street in Ballincollig.

Planning has to be sought for change of use which has delayed things a bit. The deal happened alright. Not all the shops are suitable for bank branches though so those ones will be flipped on.

@lisam wrote:

OCP dont own the Cornmarket St Development – the O Donoghue Ring family own it.

I’d say OCP have plans to acquire the dogs home site as they have bought the Reliance bearing site last year.

O’Callaghan targets CSPCA building near Cork bus station
Sunday, March 26, 2006 – By Neil Callanan
Cork developer Owen O’Callaghan is in talks to acquire the Cork Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals building on Clontarf Street in Cork. O’Callaghan confirmed last week that he is trying to buy the building as part of a site assembly of properties in the area with the intention of developing a 9,290 square metre plus office block.

The first part of the acquisition involved the purchase of the Reliance Bearings site on Anderson’s Quay and O’Callaghan is also in talks to acquire two other properties there.

The site is at the edge of the city’s docklands area, which is set for a major regeneration, and is opposite the bus station.

It is also close to the Merchant’s Quay shopping centre, which was developed by O’Callaghan. ‘‘We have a site where we could relocate the animals’ home subject to us coming to an agreement to acquire the site,” O’Callaghan said.

@kite wrote:

😎 Now that the CSPCA applied to Cork City Council to build an Animals Home of 640 square metres and Boarding Kennels of 210 square metres in Mahon what is to become of their site on Clontraf Street?
This site and those adjoining will be a great addition to the high value development of the city if developed sensibly.

OCP owns the site, will be used as part of a larger office scheme

@Pug wrote:

fair play to the estate agents trying to make a quick few bob, obviously appealing to those parents that are partiularly wealthy with loads of money given the prices that are being asked in eden.

😮 I got the shock of my life when they came out. Had thought about maybe buying at home but that ended that.

@dc3 wrote:

(Anyone see the design for the Tara Towers in the Times last week – Centrepoint in glass.)

Thought it was awful, looks like a bus station with a tower

Hot off the presses. It’s the Kevin Roche building:
The Spencer Dock International Conference Centre Ltd (SDICC) consortium, warmly welcomes the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, John O’Donoghue, T.D.s announcement that it has been designated as the Preferred Bidder for the public/private partnership to design, build, finance and operate the National Conference Centre at Spencer Dock.

The SDICC now looks forward to completing the ongoing process with the Office of Public Works and their professional advisors to finalise contractual details to allow the SDICC consortium to swiftly commence work on providing Dublin and Ireland with a landmark state-of-the-art National Conference and Exhibition Centre.

Dermod Dwyer, Chairman/CEO of the bidding consortium (SDICC) stated: “I am delighted that the tender process has reached this important milestone. It is a real recognition for Kevin Roche, the architect, the NEC group as designated managers, CMP/Sisk the building contractors, the extensive Irish and international professional team, and the other major stakeholders particularly the promoters Spencer Dock Development Company (SDDC) – led by Treasury Holdings, all of whom have demonstrated a strong commitment and belief in this project over many years.”

He continued, “Its central location and high specification will put Dublin in a strong position to attract and compete for international conferences.”

The SDICC consortium continues to be bound by the confidentiality agreements as part of the OPW tender process and consequently will not be issuing any further comment until a formal announcement is made.

@Keen wrote:

i never heard anything about this before, what is it? is’nt that on city quay? or george’s quay?

It’s the old arts centre on the corner. Was bought by Alanis and the Kelly family if memory serves a few years ago. Planning has yet to be sought for it

@daniel_7 wrote:

Theres no justification for that, especially when there is numerous new developments lying vacent for this type of use and a need for good retail space in the city centre and they go and do that, cant get over that decision!But back to before the change of use, everyones always saying that theres not enough big premises for the big names in the city centre and this was a good example of a prime unit and was lying vacent for months and still not taking over, can anyone explain this? :

Basically large scale retailers won’t locate in places like Lavitts Quay because the footfall is insufficient. They want to be on Patrick Street. Unfortunately regarding the unit you’re discussing it’s too small for their requirements – you’ve got to remember by the time Mahon Point was completed its units were already too small for most retailers – over the last two to three years most of them have nearly doubled their minimum size requirements. The units in the extension will be significantly larger. Fashion retailers are all stocking larger ranges now and a lot are doing higher margin goods like homewares etc. A lot of them are therefore waiting for Academy Street – as already stated by me deals for the two major units are basically signed and ready to go subject to planning.

Did TCH not already have planning permission to construct an office block on that site. OCP took it on as part of the Academy Street deal I thought.

Anybody else wondering whether the awarding of the U2 tower construction project is already a done deal? Just think about what was due to be built next to it and how that is no longer mentioned even though it has planning permission.