Micko
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I’d personally like to see some sort of town centre along the lines of Douglas built for Bishopstown.
Somewhere like the area around Dino’s would be good but is it ideally placed ?
Here’s a little image drawing from google maps.
Is the red enclosed area a basic floor plan of the Academy street development or is it different ?
Anyone hear anything about the possible upgrade of the Cork Watergrasshill road from Dual Carriage way to Motorway between Glanmire and Watergrasshill ?
@kite wrote:
I would agree that the design does not look too bad BUT i don’t think any proposal for this prominent site should be just ok, it should be exceptional, otherwise we will be going down the route of Merchants Quay, ie “Its a slight improvement on what is already there so let’s go for it”
God, i can only barely remember Merchants Quay of old from my childhood. Completely run down small shops. In fact, i i think every single shop was closed down from when I remember it. Any pics anyone ?
@malec wrote:
Basically tall and slender is better than short and bulky I think. Aswell as you said it would create a better impression if the tower was out in front, facing the river rather than hidden away (although 12 storeys seems a bit too tall though)
Might start a high rise trend for McCurtain Street. I doubt think it actually looks that bad. Especially compared to the appartments at Victoria Cross.
Lexington: Any bigger pick of the new Metropole ? WOuld like to see a better view. I actually like the design and am suprised that there isn’t more talk about it.
Anyone have pictures of what the Grand Parade Plaza is going to look like ?
Can’t find anything on the Cork Corp website.
Puts Cork in perspective considering the total great area of Belfast is only 550,000 ish.
Saying Cork only has a population of 126,000 makes it look tiny.
Just a few questions here.
At the moment, the official population of cork is something like 186,000 with its imediate suburbs. Just wondering, but does anyone know what area’s of cork are technically part of the city.
IMO, places like Ballincollig, Glanmire, Sallybrook, Rochestown, Douglas, Donnybrook and Grange should all be brought in as part of the city and leave them out of COrk Co Co’s juistinction.
If you were to bring all the suburbs in, including Ballincollig, anyone know what hte population would be ? 350,000 ish ?
Anyone have any pictures of what the Grand Parade will look like after the renovations are complete.
Something like Patricks street ?
Talking of the Metropole, I wouldn’t mind seeing some sort of plan for McCurtain street.
At the moment it has one hotel, a theatre, a few restaurants and a nice few pubs. SOme beautiful buildings there too. the building housing isaacs restaurant is nice, (the back with the waterfall is very classy).
Pity though that the street is left down by that awfully ugly Zanussi building beside Isaacs, not to mention the general seediness added by Cash Converters and the sex shop bang in the middle of the street.
BTW, anyone know anything else about the proposed redevelopment of the Metropole Hotel.
I saw a picture earlier on in this thread of doing a huge redevelopment, taking in other buildings with a frontage on patricks quay.
Just on the academy street project.
The lane that goes between Emmets place and patrick street, I really hope they do a similar job on this like the 2 lanes leading onto Paul Street. Could see this lane being transformed into another restaurant/ pub hub in the city. Mix it in as part of the Hugenot quarter too.
