History meets the future on South Mall

CORK city’s South Mall, the traditional financial heartland of the southern capital, has sprung back to life, with occupancy increases and new-builds in the mix.

The welcome movement comes after fears for its future over the past decade, given the preponderance of 19th century buildings at a time of a drive to modern, third-generation spaces and edge-of-city development.

Behind much of the new energy is John Cleary Developments, who have yet another South Mall acquisition on the cards, and who are currently building 45,000 sq ft of new Gold LEED offices behind 85 South Mall, on a carefully assembled site for 450 new FDI jobs. Builders, Hegarty, are on-site (with excavation work for basement parking commenced). The slogan for the development is ‘where history meets the future’.