Business owners back €150m regeneration project

Several influential business owners have backed one of two rival developers who are bidding for €16m in public funding to help build a conference centre in Cork.

The group of up to 50 city centre publicans, restaurant owners, and retailers said they fully support the €150m Brewery Quarter regeneration proposed by Heineken/BAM on the former Beamish and Crawford brewery site on South Main St.

The Support the Brewery Quarter campaign is being driven by Derry O’Regan, co-owner of SoHo and the East Village in Douglas; Electric and Voodoo owner Ernest Cantillon; Rearden’s owner Paul Montgomery; Cornstore boss Mike Ryan; and Mick Scully of the North Main Street Traders’ Association. They will meet English Market traders next week to seek their support.