Greenfield sites hardly come any better, or beguiling, than this. Seven acres of ‘farm’ land, recently shorn of its annual crop of maize, between the two main Douglas Roads in suburban Cork, within a walk of the city centre have just come up for sale as a truly prime development opportunity.

THE first phase of a significant €15million motor trade investment on Cork city’s Bandon Road opens next week, indicative of the recovery in the Irish economy, the motor trade and a forerunner of other developments to follow on Cork’s western fringes.

OVER €100m has been invested off-market, across three low-key retail deals, in the heart of Cork City, at Opera Lane, Merchants Quay/Marks & Spencers Shopping Centre, and St Patrick’s St.

Motor dealers Johnson & Perrott are poised to invest €15m in a new, third dealership location for their Cork City-based business.