The jury’s back and verdict clear on city development

Tommy Barker is impressed by Cork’s largest ever apartment scheme.

THE jury is still out on the future of Dublin’s controversial and costly Jurys Hotel development site, but in Cork’s former Jurys site, the verdict is in. It is home and dry.

With the first-ever €1 million apartment sale just under their belt in Cork city, O’Callaghan Properties are finally going public on the sales of the Lancaster Gate scheme on Western Road and Lancaster Quay, on the bulk of the seven-acre Leeside site bought in an off-market coup.