Office spaces opening up in Cork city

CORK’S City centre office supply looks set to take a quantum leap forward along its quays, hot on the heels of the success of the One Albert Quay development by John Cleary Developments.

In the week that O’Callaghan Properties confirmed their plans to develop 360,000 sq ft of fourth-generation Gold LEED standard offices on Albert Quay and Albert Road around Navigation House, marketing is about to start on a further 240,000 sq ft of offices at Trinity Quarter by South Terrace.

Full planning permission is in place to demolish the old Brooks builders providers building on the Lee’s south channel by Copley Street and South Terrace near Union Quay: the 1.3 acre Trinity Quarter site was bought at market peaked in 2008 by Reox/Alchemy (the property wing at the time for Dairygold) for a considerable but unconfirmed c €15 million. Dairygold, currently on an expansion drive in Mallow, remain a parent company of the Trinity Quarter site’s now-named developers Watfore Ltd, to a design by RKD Architects.