The developers behind the €50m regeneration of the landmark Capitol cinema site in Cork City have abandoned plans for a food hall in favour of more retail and office space.

Cork City is due to get a significant new, branded Italian restaurant and deli — a Carluccio’s.

A government minister has defended the pre-election sod turning on the stalled €53m Cork event centre despite no building work on site four months on.

Eimear O’Herlihy is from Cork city and she is festival manager with West Cork Literary Festival, a week-long programme of readings, workshops and family events that will take place in Bantry, July 17 -23.

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.

It's the end of an era for the people of Cork as the Capitol Cinema on the city's Grand Parade has been demolished.

Commercial opportunities are radiating outward from Cork’s centre.

The €9.5 million sale of Irish Life investment properties in Cork and Limerick includes two Patrick Street Cork units set for increased profile from next year, when the Capitol Cinema retail site is completed, bringing a strong anchor (Zara? H&M?) to this end of Patrick Street.

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A West Cork retail investment, previously occupied by a pharmacy has been put up for sale, with dual street access, in the heart of Clonakilty town.

Demolition work on the former Capitol cinema site in the heart of Cork City has begun, heralding the start of a €50m project which is set to rejuvenate the city centre.

Cork City Council should decide within days whether to permit a café to be developed on a busy city centre corner.

If you need tangible evidence of how Cork City is regenerating then take a look at the close-to-complete Albert Quay office block next to City Hall. It signifies modernity, confidence and a vision about what the city is capable of undertaking over the coming decades.

A leading developer has lodged a planning application following complaints about an unauthorised car park on public land in Cork City’s tech and software jobs hub.

Global consulting engineering company, Arup, is to move into new Cork City offices, at One Albert Quay, in time for its 70th anniversary.

As a graduate who has been unemployed for over two and a half years, I think It’s great to see developments like One Albert Quay being constructed in Cork.

Two appeals to An Bord Pleanála will delay the start of the €50m regeneration of the derelict former Capitol cinema site in Cork City by at least four months.

Two of the country’s leading developers have warned that a merger of Cork city and county councils could cost jobs and investment and be “hugely damaging” for the future of the city.

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.

DPP raises new concerns over publication of David Drumm’s statement; Cuthbert ‘stepping down with immediate effect’ as Cork senior football manager; Ryanair flight returns to airport minutes after departure to remove forgotten luggage; and Aer Lingus flight forced to swerve in take-off to avoid jet. Here’s today’s lunchtime irishexaminer.com round-up.

With a price tag of €30m-plus, Cork City’s Clarion Hotel is the most valuable Irish hotel outside of Dublin to come to the open market since the economic downturn.

Planners have given the green light for the €50m regeneration of the landmark former Capitol cinema site in the heart of Cork City.

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 historic Woodford bar in Cork city centre, with a licensed and drinks trade link stretching back to 1750, has been bought out of receivership for c €1.25 million.

IN the first five months of 2015, office activity in Cork has been dominated by the FDI sector, with five substantial transactions completed.

A development plan for Cork has identified land in the city that is suitable for the production of nearly 20,000 houses. The bulk of the land is available in the redeveloped docklands and Port of Cork area in Tivoli.

Here are eight projects that could rejuvenate Cork City.

€500m in developments will rejuvenate city but planning is key, writes Eoin English

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.

Planning permission is today being sought for a €50m development that aims to be "a catalyst project for Cork city centre, a game changer".

A MAJOR UK-based retail expo comes to Dublin next month for the first time, as the Irish retail market shows signs of recovery from the economic slump.

The sale and €75m- €100m redevelopment of Cork City’s prime Capitol Cinema site for a food-related innovation centre, retail and office block represents "a turning point for the city" and will lead to renewal of a whole section of Cork, it has been claimed.