Kent Station revamp will transform Horgans Quay

NEW linkages and a whopping 2 million passengers per year feeding into and out of CIE’s Kent Station Cork will raise the profile of the transport company’s Horgans’ Quay development site, which gets put back out for tender this week.

Agents Lisney have been appointed now, for a second bid to secure a joint developer for the prime, river-fronting six acres and city end portion of the company’s much larger Horgans Quay holding, where redevelopment prospects have been touted for more than 20 years.

Already, CIE is working on-site, developing a new car park onto Horgan’s Quay, finally moving on its long-held plans to reorient the busy rail station’s access away from Lower Glanmire Road and to make easier, shorter, pedestrian, taxi and commuter access to the city centre and to the bus station.