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.

City officials have defended their handling of the Cork event centre saga which has been hit by more delays and new fears about soaring costs.

Owners of two of Cork’s best-known nightclubs have lodged appeals against a decision to grant planning for student apartments on the former Beamish and Crawford site.

The developers of Cork’s stalled event centre may have to apply for new planning permission after it emerged that they need to build a bigger venue.

BAM, the developer planning to build an events centre in Cork, is poised to ask the Government for at least another €12m in State funding to deliver the 6,000-seat venue.

The Lord Mayor of Cork has withdrawn controversial comments he made about the development of Cork’s stalled event centre.

The Government could be asked to cough up another €10m in State funding to save the stalled Cork event centre project from collapse.

Developer Owen O’Callaghan has been described as a humble man of integrity and a true gent who support many charities discreetly and charmed all those he met.

A councillor has called on Cork City Council to adopt a more “hardline approach” towards the developers of Cork’s stalled event centre.

The developers behind Cork’s stalled €53m events centre have insisted they are totally committed to the project, which they say has now reached a critical point.

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 Taoiseach said he stands ready to intervene at the right time to ensure that Cork Airport secures its first transatlantic flights.

Throughout the centuries, Cork has enjoyed a bustling level of commercial activity and trade, sitting on what is regarded as the principal port in the south-west of Ireland, writes Theo Cullinane CEO of BAM Ireland 

Several strategic investment projects worth almost €500m will transform Cork City and generate thousands of jobs over the next few years, the city’s business leaders were told last night.

Three businessmen give their views on Budget 2015.

Construction firm BAM Ireland recorded a 22% rise in profits last year as a number of big domestic and international projects, allied with improving demand in the office sector, pushed pre-tax profit to €7.5m.

Construction cranes could be back on Cork City’s skyline next year, with plans being lodged today for a €50m eight-storey office block alongside City Hall.

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.

One of the forerunners bidding to secure almost €16m in public funding to build a conference centre in Cork believe their ambitious project has the potential to support up to 1,200 jobs and attract 400,000 visitors.

Donal O’Brien – CEO Aramark

BAM Contractors — the country’s largest public works construction firm — has reported a 47.5% rise in annual profits.

TRUCKS carrying 70 portacabins left Cork this week for site use in constructing eight new schools, under a €100m PPP investment of 25 years with contractors BAM PPP.

One hundred jobs are to be created by specialist construction company BAM Contractors to cover projects it has signed up to in Ireland and overseas.

About 100 construction and engineering jobs are being created on the controversial Corrib gas project.

One of the largest construction firms in Europe, Royal BAM, has called on the Government to provide a stimulus package to the sector by providing public private partnership contacts.

THE building of office facilities for 2,000 hi-tech workers in a €50 million expansion of the City Gate complex in Cork will lead to 300 construction jobs over the next 18 months.

THE construction of just 29 houses in Cork city last year represented a 98% drop from the 1,627 that commenced in 2006.