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@Radioactiveman wrote:
Minihan’s Jewellery Shop in North MAin Street was destroyed totally by a fire yesterday. Apartments overhead were also destroyed. I believe the building was recently renovated so it is particulrly tough on residents and the store owners.
Will surely lead to an even more gap-toothed apparence for the street.do you mean the one on castle street next to the coal quay or is there another one on north main st?
@lexington”]you’re going to have to keep biting those nails a little longer! <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/redface.gif" alt= wrote:
No need to bite the nails Lex, I just moved back to Cork from Dublin and I genuinely am delighted to see all the developments etc going on, long may it continue. I know we can have the odd robust discussion about whether or not something good is being developed but the way this country goes, sometimes I’m grateful that anything gets done at all. I would love to see a few nice tasteful 15 stories popping up here and there
No fear of OCP anyway I’d say.
any more comment on Daniel Libeskind last week? massive mix of people at the lecture, architects, developers and the arty folk. I’d like peoples odds on whether any Cork developer would commission Libeskind for a landmark building? (notwithstanding he probably charges squillions to design something now!).
yeah, 5.1 million, got way more than they bargained for. Not bad considering the guide price was 3.2 mill.
lex
re the werdna refusal, never seen your words so animated, just shows how ticked off you are It’s a bizarre situation to have talks all the way along with the developers and then sort of kind of half-refuse, it seems to be pure politics. . Its like they seem to think that they have to be seen to refuse, then they pretend to make a fuss about it and eventually will grant permission after people point out how stupid their decisions are. Its about time the whole planning process was utterly revamped although with Dick Roche as minister, there isnt a hope in hell of a logical decision happening. Then you have Frinailla getting refused planning in Watercourse Rd but Joe Gavin can step in then and single handedly sort it for them.
I was in talks with a planner about a site and made all the required changes and then when i put in the application with all the changes that had been discussed with the planner to my utter astonishment it was refused. What was the point in my investing time money and energy and all I was doing was keeping the planner happy? I got the permission after logging and diarising the meetings and proving I had made the changes AT THEIR REQUEST. Idiotic.
Whats frustrating is that Cork is of a size that has SO much potential, We need a concert venue, the showgrounds needs a revamp and the fact that you STILL cant get public transport after 11.15 at night is hilarious.
@lexington wrote:
Pug – the corner building turning left onto South Mall and heading west toward Grand Parade??? THAT corner building isn’t seeing much action at the present but is scheduled for a refurbishment. .
thats the one – i was just curious, they are working away on it, seems more than a refurb though given that it was in awful condition
cheers
howdy
water street looks imprseeive there, well done on the photos lads
maybe i missed it in a previous thread but anyone any info on what they are doing to the building on the left, as you go over the bridge from georges quay and turn left on to south mall??
ta
Everyone note the plans in the Examiner for the Capitol Cineplex in town? looks impressive and with the Oyster bar and various units in behind being sold, between that and the Grand Parade, the city will be flying!
anyone know whats happening with the buiilding on the left on the corner with south mall as you go over the bridge from georges quay?
cheers
alright keeneye and lex
cheers for the info re douglas
any links you have to
a) the drawings of the apartments in douglas
b) the pictures ofr what the brideview apts by the siemens buildingwould be appreciated
cheersBe interesting to see if those apartments in douglas will add to the chaos that is the traffic situation there. Who designs these road systems?
anyone know about the following:
a) who is behind the development going on in douglas, opposite dailys shop, ridge developments are the builders
b) there is a swathe of land in passage, opposite the car showrooms of jerry collins ( who has since moved back to enniskeane leaving the site available i imagine) – supposed to be a fair few houses going in on the land opposite these showrooms, any info?
Lex, just to clarify re the ESSO stations for sale, the one in Douglas called Dunmahon is definetely for sale with CRBE Gunne, i sawa the signs up this morning
rock on the docklands news, fingers and toes crossed for the O Flynns tower now, and whatever further good news you’re hinting at
an impassioned and honestly raw opinion there Lex, and you are 100% right but its frustrating as hell to see what COULD be done as opposed to what WILL be done and more importantly, what bureaucracy is preventing. Local cutting edge newspaper The Echo is today stating that the €25m announced by CIE for development of Kent station now has no definite timeline (secret code for Cork aint getting it) and further on in the article says the €25m now depends on CIE’s profits from sale of the 17 acre site of Horgans Quay?? It seems to be that there will be some action on it by the end of the year and Joe Gavin is either very much in favour of getting the thing moving or is doing wonderful PR Spin.
There is a long list of woes as to what Cork is missing out on. I argee that we have to get on and see the positives and do something about it but the only way politicians etc take notice is by endangering their votes and swaying public opinion. Get a website going to register peoples names and opinions, send it in to County Hall and more importantly, get it out to the media. A general election aint that far away. 😎
ok radioactiveman, CIE are throwing up the negative vibes.
Lets go back to the original discussion about corks buildings. I am curious, is the Glucksman totally over rated or is it just my tastes. I definetely appreciate the gallery part, its just the structure. Now bear in mind, i havent been there yet so I will take a closer look and be open to revising my opinion.
