A Cork City quayside prime redevelopment block may be about to move from trough to peak, with the planned sale of a key corner building, McLaughlins, which even — appropriately — has a

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The country’s largest wholesale food supplier, Pallas Foods, which has an annual turnover in excess of €350m, has closed out a deal on a 83,000sq ft logistics building in Cork’s Courtstown.

Investment worth a further €10m is set to flow into Cork’s Blarney Business Park, in a significant speculative drive forward by the park’s new owners, JCD Group.

A new office development in the heart of Cork's docklands is aiming to become Ireland's greenest building.

Delivery of new office stock in Cork city looks set to calm recent rent growth, with current peaks now standing at €350 per square metre or €32.50 per square foot, according to a new specialist sector report.

A 25-storey apartment tower is proposed for a Cork city centre site on Albert Quay.

The first new office building to be constructed on Cork city’s South Mall in a generation is 35% more energy efficient than comparable buildings, constructed even up to just a decade ago.

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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.

Developers JCD have made an off-market multi-million euro swoop on the Cork city Albert Quay site occupied for the past 50 years by family-owned Carey Tools, including the Sextant bar which was subsequently acquired by the Carey family.

One of the best remaining, compact prime redevelopment sites in Cork city has been sold for over €7 million, for 0.63 of an acre, or for the equivalent of €11 million per acre, to Dublin-based purchasers.

Cork is set become a big data hub following confirmation that a €200m data centre campus will begin operations on the outskirts of the city next year.

Focus on providing an urban framework that injects life to our city centre, writes Peter O’Flynn.

A new video has revealed what developers JCD Group have in store for Cork's South Mall as they expand city's growing collection of next-generation office buildings.

The first store in the newly-developed €50m retail and office complex at the old Capitol Cineplex site in Cork opened its doors yesterday — and will inject new life into one of the city centre’s most historic areas, according to leading business figures in the city.

Global 21st-century tech giant Facebook, along with Chinese firm Huawei and US cyber security company Alien Vault, are to keep company with a repolished Cork pearl, the 18th century-founded Oyster Tavern, as the line-up for the city centre’s €50m Capitol shops, office and bar development is confirmed.

A €200m data centre development on the outskirts of Cork City is being hailed as a vital new resource to the city’s infrastructure that will underpin employment growth in the coming years.

Cork’s soon-to-be largest office block, One Albert Quay, is set to land another major tenant as the landmark development continues to attract considerable interest.

The early success of Cork’s soon-to-be largest office block will spur the commercial property market into life and help alleviate key infrastructural shortcomings in the city, according to a leading consultancy firm.

The decision by a property investment company to pay up to €58m for an office block nine months ahead of completion, should give confidence to the developers of other major development in the pipeline for Cork city, the Cork Chamber has said.

Cork City’s newest and largest office block, One Albert Quay, has been purchased for up to €58m by Green Reit nine months ahead of its completion.

GOOD story for Cork, good story for the country, and more cranes on the skyline to come.