Landmark Cork City move for newspapers

THE office relocation of Landmark Media Investments Ltd, publishers of the Irish Examiner and Evening Echo newspapers, to Blackpool, in Cork, is the second significant office deal in the city in recent weeks.

The company this week confirmed the planned move from City Quarter, Lapps Quay, to the Linn Dubh building — next to the Revenue Commissioners — off Watercourse Road. A €1m fit-out has commenced. The move, involving several hundred day and night staff, is expected by October, with the City Quarter building to be vacated by Nov 5.

Landmark Media had considered several rival relocation sites, including Phoenix House, on Monahan Road, and the Motorola building, off Skehard Road/Mahon, where Abtran has taken 60,000 sq ft from owners O’Flynn Construction, primarily for Irish Water company support-services jobs. Abtran had reportedly also looked at the Linn Dubh, 45,000 sq ft building, which is on Assumption Road.