City vision to swing into docklands

A ‘NEW Cork’ beckons down-river of the existing southern city — but locals can’t yet see it.

The claim was made at the launch last night of a seminal €1 billion investment plan proposed for just one fraction of Cork’s sprawling 420-acre Docklands campus.

Forging new links, the planned €1bn Atlantic Quarter will bookmark the far end of Cork city’s languishing docks and old yards, and will be distinguished by an iconic swing-bridge with Europe’s longest span, green buildings up to 96 metres/ 30 storeys tall, an events centre, and huge office park with plazas, houses and apartments.