Kenny Group’s colossal €100m office development gets go-ahead

THE LARGEST office development ever proposed for Cork city received the go-ahead from the city council yesterday.

Developer Paul Kenny of the Kenny Group is a front-runner to take on the Revenue Commissioners as tenants for his new €100 million office scheme on Patrick’s Quay, called The Treasury.

Six stories high with underground parking, the initial design was amended during the planning process. The permission comes with a number of conditions, not least a development levy of around €1.5m.

An appeal to Bord Pleanála ‘is highly unlikely’ according to Mr Kenny as the group has a good relationship with its neighbours.

Also ready for the Revenue Commissioners are McCarthy Developments, whose proposed offices on the former Goldcrop /Gouldings site is clear to go following the withdrawal of a third party appeal.

The Love-owned, Shipton Group’s office scheme in Blackpool, part of a commercial/retail/residential campus, which is presently under construction, is also in the running, as are developers, Frank Sheahan and Joe Carey, on the Watercourse road with a near 20-acre site.

The Kenny Group’s new 7,681 square metre building will have immediate impact on the quayside with its Wilson Architects-designed curved, glass facade.

However, this is not the group’s biggest venture to date. It is planning a large retail development in Galway which will be bigger than Mahon Point.

The Kenny Group is developing a chunk of the Grand Parade and has completed Section 50 student accommodation on the Model Farm Road.