Horgan’s Quay looks back on track

Twenty years after it hit national headlines, set political and business shock waves and repercussions that saw Ministerial resignations, tribunals and indirectly the demise of a serving Taoiseach, Cork City’s Horgan’s Quay site is back up for grab, openly this time, by tender.

It’s being sold by CIE, who have just agreed a development deal in Dublin with Johnny Ronan for part of its Tara Street station/block for a 22-storey office tower of 175,00 sq ft, a new Hill of Tara.

One of Cork’s great under-developed sites, south-facing over the River Lee and a key element of any dockland renewal ambitions, Horgan’s Quay has been the focus of redevelopment ambitions for more than two decades.