The €90m office development proposed this week for Cork City’s quays show a mark of confidence in the second city’s employment prospects — much of it foreign direct investment-sourced jobs — as is evident in recent jobs announcements and arrivals such as Tyco.

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

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 

Revised plans for a €45m quayside office block, with the potential to deliver 1,800 jobs for Cork City, have been given planning permission.

A development company in Nama has objected to a massive office block project in Cork City which has the potential to deliver 2,000 jobs.

The absence of transatlantic flights from Cork Airport is costing the county jobs, the developer of a huge office campus at the centre of Cork’s latest jobs boost has warned.

The enterprise minister announced 150 new IT jobs in Cork yesterday as the live register fell below 400,000 for the first time since May 2009.

Confirmation of last week’s Commercial Property exclusive story about 500 jobs coming to Cork in a major FDI investment came this Monday with Tyco publicly named as the new arrival, or returnee.

A SCANDINAVIAN investor is the buyer of a significant office investment in Cork, paying about €15m for buildings at Cork Airport Business Park.

EAGLE-EYED investors will swoop on a portfolio sale of nine apartments in Cork’s Jacobs Island — in a block called the Falcon.

Cork’s City Gate Park in Mahon today takes a further step towards major IT talent clustering with confirmation of the arrival of hundreds of EMC Corporation jobs to the new office campus.

AN ENTIRE South Mall building, opposite the Imperial Hotel, is coming to market for lease because overhead tenants, law firm Ronan Daly Jermyn, are relocating to City Gate Park in Mahon, Cork.

A €1M fit-out wraps up this weekend as the covers come off Munster’s largest retail letting — UK giant DFS opens its second Irish store, in the office and retail City Gate Park, Mahon, Cork, this Saturday.

A US technology company is to create 100 jobs with the opening of an engineering and security operations centre in Dublin.

A SERIES of deals and employment is expected to flow at the €70 million City Gate Park, built over the past 18 months in the face of international recession, and where Taoiseach Enda Kenny tomorrow officially opens the 75,000 sq ft stand-alone building bought by Dell/Quest.

Forty retail jobs are in the offing for a pre-Christmas opening of UK sofa chain DFS’s new Cork store.

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.

THERE was a poor level of office space take up in Cork in the second quarter, according to a new report from DTZ Sherry FitzGerald, with a notable increase in supply of offices, mostly from the release of second-hand properties, along with the rapidly completing City Gate Park in the Mahon suburbs where Quest are set to take 80,000 sq ft of the 250,000 new building.

Quest Software rose above the $23-a-share offer from Insight Venture Partners to take the technology company private, signalling investors may anticipate higher bids.

The developer of one of the country’s single largest open-plan office blocks said he is confident it will help deliver 1,000 jobs within a year.

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