BAM: Cork events centre will go ahead

The developers behind Cork’s stalled €53m events centre have insisted they are totally committed to the project, which they say has now reached a critical point.

BAM chief executive Theo Cullinane confirmed that a detailed €400,000 internal design plan for the facility, earmarked for the former Beamish and Crawford site on South Main St, has been prepared by a team led by Populous and Charcoal Blue, global leaders in arena, stadia and event centre design. They have devised a series of complex engineering solutions to allow the proposed 6,000-seat venue to be one of the most flexible standalone venues in the world.

Following input from the venue operators, Live Nation, the designs show how the venue can be configured quickly in more than a dozen modes to host: