€50m office block could be biggest built in Cork

Construction cranes could be back on Cork City’s skyline next year, with plans being lodged today for a €50m eight-storey office block alongside City Hall.

Partners in the plan for 200,000sq ft of offices capable of hosting 2,000 jobs are BAM Construction and John Cleary Developments. The duo have built (and mostly filled) 300,000sq ft of offices in Cork’s Mahon suburb in the past two years for the likes of Dell, Fireye, RDJ, and EMC.

Just last month JCD sold two completed Mahon City Gate blocks to Irish Life Assurances for €40m, and has now teamed up with BAM on what’s probably the best available office site in the city centre, fronting the Elysian complex on Albert Quay.