New life for Camden Quay landmark

Site clearance works could start within weeks on a Camden Quay office building of 72,000 sq ft, and which could have a transformative impact on an old Cork city centre area less than 100m from St Patrick Street.

Developers Stone Work Properties Ltd have been given notification of a grant of permission for a fourth floor of set-back additional office space behind the classic, Italianate facade of the quayside building, which brings the project now to 65,000 sq ft of nett lettable space.

Previous uses included a community arts centre (now relocated to John Redmond Street), a temporary courthouse during upgrade works on the city’s main court building on Washington Street, and, for many decades before that, as a garden centre trading as Atkins/McKenzies.