O’Callaghan’s giant retail centre plans to create 2,000 jobs

MORE than 2,000 jobs will be created early next year when phase one of Ireland’s largest mixed use commercial developments outside Dublin opens in Cork.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan said the 250,000 sq ft shopping centre element of his €550 million Mahon Point scheme will become one of Munster’s biggest employers when it opens on Tuesday, February 1, 2005.

“Up to 80% of the jobs in all of these shops will go to local people,” Mr O’Callaghan said.