600 student bed scheme planned for Cork

Provision of Cork’s largest single student accommodation development, with 600 beds, is promised by a UK-based company, which has just taken over the moth-balled Coca Cola bottling plant by County Hall on the Carrigrohane Road.

In its first move into Ireland, UK-based firm Future Generation — a partnership involving the Southern Group with Bahrain-based financiers, via the Islamic bank-related Tadhamon Capital — has just confirmed its acquisition of the Cork site by the Lee Fields, close to UCC and CIT, “to create a flagship 600-bed student accommodation scheme”.