New application for Albert Quay site

The withdrawn plans for a major new office complex on Cork’s Albert Quay have been replaced with a new application from joint developers BAM Property Ltd & Progressive Commercial Construction Ltd.

Following third-party appeals and commencement of legal proceedings relating to Cork City Council’s approval of the plan, the firms withdrew that application last month. It had sought to develop a scheme fronting the quay east of Cork City Hall and part of the same block as O’Flynn Construction’s Elysian tower and mixed commercial scheme.

That application, as approved by the city council, was for a nine-storey development. But the revised plan, on which initial details were submitted last week, proposes to develop an eight-storey building.