Ballincollig’s brownfield site is a residential launch pad

IT’S easy to see from this aerial photograph why the experts call this a brownfield site. The central swirl of bulldozed earth is 90 acres of land in the centre of Ballincollig - soon to become Cork’s 21st century town.

This week, Sherry FitzGerald launches the residential part of this €500 million undertaking, which will take seven years to complete.

The flyers have already gone out for the sale of 28 houses, a trickle for the 871 units to come in the town centre’s time frame, with the first releases ready for occupation by spring 2005, says Trish Stokes, new homes director with Sherry FitzGerald, who heads up the residential sales from a dedicated marketing suite on Main Street.