Mall gets its mojo back

HIGH vacancy levels on Cork City’s South Mall may finally be reversed, with an overall rise in the economy, and in the demand for professional services and indigenous offices.

That’s according to Savills agent, Sam Daunt, who has a number of telling deals agreed, in train and completed, all of which show that there’s life, and confidence, in the old street yet, at the traditional heartland of banking and business in the southern capital.

The South Mall fell victim to changing office needs, the emergence of a new business district around Parnell Place, George’s Quay, Lapps Quay, and now Albert Quay, too, with further moves into Anderson’s Quay and perhaps back to Horgan’s Quay, where a CIE site is expected to come soon for joint development proposals.