Design delays on the stalled €53m Cork events centre means it is unlikely to be open in 2018, as predicted at the sod turning in February.

The chief executive of Cork City Council has reported significant progress in talks designed to deliver the city’s first major events centre.

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Developer Owen O’Callaghan has confirmed plans to build a fourth-generation office block on a Cork City site which had been earmarked for an events and conference centre.

A key landowner in Cork’s sprawling south docklands has backed O’Callaghan Properties’ €50m Albert Quay events centre project.

Up to 200 business in Cork have signed up to a campaign to support the €150m redevelopment of the former Beamish and Crawford site into an events centre, according to the campaign organisers.

A vintners lobby group has been criticised for urging Cork members to attend a briefing on a multi-million events centre project — backed by a brewery.

RIVAL developers competing to build Cork’s first indoor events and conference centre have launched an intensive lobbying campaign ahead of a review to determine who should get a €16m state support package.

Despite opposition from heritage campaigners, Heineken Ireland and their joint venture partners BAM Contractors secured planning permission for their €150m Brewery Quarter regeneration project on the historic Beamish and Crawford site on South Main St.

The developer behind one of two multi-million event centres proposed for Cork City has warned against a “public spat” after several prominent business owners united to support his rival.

Several influential business owners have backed one of two rival developers who are bidding for €16m in public funding to help build a conference centre in Cork.

A €150-million Brewery Quarter tourism and cultural investment is planned for the heart of Cork city, on the four-acre site vacated in 2009 by the historic firm Beamish and Crawford.