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Just noticed in the Sunday Business Post today that the latest big idea from Estate Agents is that parents should buy property for any of their kids going to college. They suggest that place in Blackrock/Mahon called Eden as being perfect for this in fact! Not exactly convenient to UCC/CIT though. I assume things aren’t going as well for sales there as expected if they’re resorting to this approach?
@Keen wrote:
Has anyone seen the site recently? Have they commenced groundwork yet?
Last time I walked past, over a week ago, there were a bunch of earth moving machinery in there but didn’t look it was a full scale operation as yet.
Anyone know what’s happening with the Kino cinema? They had a planning permission notice up for a while to close off the lane running just next to it but everything seems to have gone quite again.
A friend of mine working in the former Southern Health Board (they are not sure what to call it now 🙂 ) told me that if all the plans for CUH work out, it will be the biggest hospital in the country!
@lexington wrote:
You will remember earlier a post was issued noting Frinailla had entered planning for a 25-unit residential development over commercial facility and basement car-parking. The development, planned for the former Plumbing Utilities Store bordering Ashbrook apartment complex and Top Car Motor Dealership, was designed by Geraldine McNamara of Richard Rainey & Associates and ranges in height between 6 and 7-storeys. Apartments will range in size between 55m sq for one-bedroom units, 90m sq for 2-bedroom units and a 190m sq duplex penthouse with 4-bedrooms (these scale apartments have been actively encouraged by CCC and its nice to see more of these units come in to circulation). Each apartment will have 2 basement parking spaces and basement storage facilities.
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Nice to finally see the sort of apartment that people get in Europe making its way to Cork 🙂 I helped somebody find a flat in Munich last year and they all had the underground parking & a nice big lockable storage area in the basement.
As a matter of interest who’s involved in selling the Eglinton St development or is it way too early for that?
@mickeydocs wrote:
I miss the humidity factor
Going home in a few weeks and I’m looking forward to checking out this new walk 🙂
Was down for a game of squash in the Mardyke this morning so thought I take a look at the new bridge. Maybe there was some ceremony during the week but unfortunately it’s still very much closed :confused: Unless you fancy climbing the fence that’s been blocking access for the past few months. Hopefully it will really be open in the near future.
@kite wrote:
Thanks for the upcoming info on Custom House Quay..Anyone wondering why is is difficult to convince people that they have nothing to fear regarding high rise buildings should take a look at O. Mitchell FG TDs views on high hise at http://www.corksouthwest.com News page.
I’d have to agree with their comment on the Victoria Mills development though 🙂
If 15 year old students designed these Flats for a Technical Graphics exam, would they FAIL ??
(Victoria Cross Flats built in 2004.)
@phatman wrote:
Just noticed, why’s this thread only worthy of four stars? It’s a 5-star in my opinion if ever there was one, cmon people use your vote! 😀
Ok ok, just voted! Has that done the trick?
@kite wrote:
:rolleyes: Re:Lexington post 615, next time you walk the City give me a call, i would love to share the magic mushrooms you must use!! or do you wear rose tinted glasses? last time i walked the city streets i watched my back.
As someone who lives in city centre and walks around the place at most times of the day & night, I wouldn’t agree. Ok you might want to reconsider exploring the alleys off Washington Street after the clubs have closed but other wise it’s fine.
For me seeing the scaffolding going on on the warehouse behind BOI on the South Mall shows that things are happening in Cork cause I could never understand how it was left derelict for so long given its central location.
Indeed a very disappointing outcome 🙁 Do you think there is anything people on this forum could do to complain about the decision? Email someone in CC etc?
@lexington wrote:
Many of you have asked how come no images of Victoria Mills, developed by Paul Montgomery & Edmund Kenneally, designed by Derek Tynan & Associates, constructed by Bowen Construction, have been posted on this thread considering all the talk about it. Although I have provided links, here’s an image, finally! Hmmm. Phase 2 begins late May.
Pretty much everyone I know thinks this building is a blot on the landscape of the city, and given that I go past it every evening coming from work I would have to agree that it’s pretty ugly.
Is the new development going up beside it going to be of a similiar ilk?
@lexington wrote:
As promised, and I finally figured how to compress the images I have (quiet Hurrah!), here are those exclusive images of the new, revised application for Werdna Developments’ Water Street project.
Hope to have more interesting images up soon now that I know how to get somewhere with them!
And this is my 500th Post – I don’t know whether that’s good or very very sad. Oh well.
Must say it looks very good. Around time that Cork got something like this. Stayed in a high up flat in the US on holidays last year and have a hankering to live somewhere similar. Probably well beyond my means though 🙁
Please keep up the good work, it’s great to see what’s coming down the road development-wise in the city.
@lexington wrote:
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I thought as much – I hadn’t heard anything about such a project at that location. Plus ‘Wrixon Advanced Management Institute’ – I very much doubt it. :pI just forwarded that post on to some friends in UCC & I’d be willing to bet they will believe that name for the Management Institute 🙂
@lexington wrote:
Also, anyone know a good freeware image compression programme? It would allow me load up some very interesting and high-quality development images to the forum – some of which have not yet been released to the public. I am having trouble compressing images (JPEG) of 4MB and 5MB to under or at 1MB.
I use this one, it’s pretty good IrfanView .
lexington wrote:opus – the OPW approached consulting engineers, the David Kelly Partnership in 2002 about assessing redevelopment options for Sullivans Quay before ultimately deciding to relocate full-stop. A number of options were presented to the OPW about remodelling the Sullivans Quay Government Buildings, before it became clear structural and foundation issues would be too expensive and difficult to correct. I have a file load of drawings and reports made regarding the building’s redesign but I’ll only post one (below) for the time being due to the limited space. Click on the thumbnail for a fuller image.
Thanks again for the news. Think it would be better if it was redeveloped as something other than an office block, the current setup attacts a lot of street drinking by night so imagine a residential development would be better. Well hopefully anyway.@lexington wrote:
2. The deadline for final proposal submissions has been extended for March 24th 2005 until April 29th 2005 – as predicted. This is to allow some developers who approached the OPW get their projects into planning. This could mean a few new large-scale proposals headed for Navigation House in the coming weeks – but I can’t say. McCarthy Developments, O’Callaghan Properties and O’Flynn Construction have all approached the OPW and been approached in return. I am also told a very prime city centre site – the subject of many former planning applications – is also set to see a new application placed on it by its developer/owner. It possesses a very attractive location from the Revenue Commissioners perspective. The Sullivans Quay building will be set for either redevelopment or refurbishment – although the latter seems improbable given the substantial subsidence issues related to the current structure.
Thanks a lot for the information, I’ve lived near that ugly monstrosity for a long while now, would be great to see it replaced by something better. Only stumbled across this site around a week ago, took a long time to get through this thread!
