At the peak of its glories, the 1930s-built Savoy seated 2,300 movie patrons, before closing in 1975.

IRELAND'S biggest seller of books, magazines and newspapers Eason is to relocate next year from its main store on Cork city's St Patrick's Street.

The developers of one of Cork’s largest docklands projects has secured its first tenant - with more announcements in the pipeline.

One of the largest bars and restaurants in Munster, the Wilton Bar in Cork's western suburbs, is to be sold next month in Dublin at public auction, with a guide price of €2.5m – and that's just a quarter of what it was due to be sold for back in Celtic Tiger times.

One of the largest bars and restaurants in Munster, the Wilton Bar in Cork's western suburbs, is to be sold next month in Dublin at public auction, with a guide price of €2.5m – and that's just a quarter of what it was due to be sold for back in Celtic Tiger times.

The developers of a 17-storey apartment block in Cork city centre increased the height of their building after consulting with An Bord Pleanála.

Argos says that it is working to minimise the job losses associated with the closure of its store in Cork city centre.

Cork’s skyline is set to reach new heights with the country’s tallest building planned for the city’s docklands.

The planned c €100m roll out of sale and leaseback of retail properties by Irish bookseller Eason continues to gather pace, with the arrival of its Cork flagship store at 113-115 St Patrick’s Street for sale, guiding €6.6 million.

The tallest office building so far developed in Cork City, Penrose Dock next to Kent Rail Station at up to nine storeys, is setting an even more impressive record: its first core and lift shaft is up to full height, less than a year after the €125m project on the city’s north quays first applied for planning permission.

Fashion and homeware retailer Laura Ashley is to leave its long-held Cork city centre shop on St Patrick’s Street, after 30 years trading there at the Merchants Quay Shopping Centre: it is moving instead to suburban retail park.

Developers with 'tunnel vision' are being canvassed for a Cork city centre plot, which directly overlook overlooks two sites where work is now underway on €300 million worth of projects.

The developers behind two major residential developments in Cork city have applied to significantly increase the size of their proposed projects.

A major planning approval this week brings to €300m the value of development set to flow onto Cork City’s north quays, by CIÉ’s Kent railway station.

Plans are being advanced for the sale of the Wilton Shopping Centre in Cork, at an expected €85m-€90m guide, after conditional planning permission for a €100m redevelopment to include a multi-screen cinema and 190-bed hotel was granted by Cork City Council within the last week.

The developers behind plans for the €100m revamp of one of Ireland’s oldest suburban shopping centres will have to reapply for planning permission after a ‘technical error’ in the application.

Planning permission for the €100m-plus renewal of the 40-year-old Wilton Shopping Centre is being sought from Cork City Council this week.

Traders in one of Munster’s oldest suburban shopping centres have given a qualified welcomed to plans for a €100m regeneration of the complex.

One of Ireland’s first suburban shopping centres is set for a massive €100m redevelopment.

One of Ireland’s first suburban shopping centres is set for a massive €100m redevelopment.

DEVELOPMENT worth €160 million, spanning eight buildings and to include 237 apartments, a 136-bed hotel, 400,000 sq ft of offices and an acre of open plaza is coming on track on Cork city’s Horgan’s Quay.

Dublin developer marks its arrival down south with a smart-looking        scheme of semi-ds in Cork’s tourism capital, writes Tommy Barker

AS CBRE prepares to open its first Cork office, new MD Brian Edwards gives an overview of the Cork commercial investment market

A VALUE of over €1 million per acre has been put on what is surely one of the best located suburban Cork sites to come to market in a decade, in Bishopstown, close to the CUH, third level colleges and the city’s ring road.

Dealmakers behind the €14 million purchase of the bulk of the City Quarter investment in Cork city centre from Nama have emerged as the just-re-branded MC2 Accountants, on behalf of private investors.

AN investment with an annual rental income just shy of €90,000, with most of it coming from a bookies as ground floor tenant, is up for sale, guiding at €1.25m.

2016 was a pivotal year for construction activity in Cork and nationwide, up by 15% for the year ended, while further growth of up to 20% is expected locally and nationally in 2017, say international asset managers and professional advisory firm AECOM.

The latest show home at Kinsale’s Cluain Mara may be down in size, but not down in style, says Tommy Barker. 

Companies considering locating in Cork may be lured by favourable terms to accommodate staff in a new, purpose-delivered, build-to-let apartment investment, as part of a proposed, mixed-used city centre project at Horgan’s Quay.

Developments worth several hundred million euro are signalled for strategic Cork city and harbour water-fronting sites, at CIÉ-owned Horgan’s Quay, and separately at Marino Point for Port of Cork.

The €4.25m Argos investment, in Cork City centre, facing the Capitol cinema redevelopment site, has been bought by neighbouring developers, Clarendon Properties, with a view to future redevelopment of their Queens Old Castle holding, on the Grand Parade.

The Wilton Shopping Centre purchase pairing (as part of the Hazel Portfolio sale) of Irish property development and investment company Clarendon Properties, with US-based York Capital Management, bodes well for Wilton’s future, say market observers.

TWO key moves this week may put Cork city on the investor and retail radar, as the city centre inches back from the slack years of recession.

THE popular US clothing outlet Abercrombie & Fitch is to open a European flagship shop in Dublin this year.

UNLIKE many property developers, whose public profile matched the size of the buildings they were constructing, Paddy McKillen is the very definition of low key.

A RENT of €1 million a year is being sought for the former Zavvi entertainment store on Cork city’s Grand Parade.