Cork's Eastgate Business Park gilded by Lilly deal on €20m office for new jobs

In a considerable new jobs and offices coup, developers O’Flynn Group are set to build a €20m, 70,000 sq ft office block, capable of housing up to 500 workers, for pharma giant Lilly’s Global Business Solutions Centre in Eastgate Business Park, Cork.

Lilly already employs 400 in a range of business services in Little Island’s Eastgate, and this new block, where they’ve taken a further double site, could see them with enough space for 1,000 employees in a new phase of growth over the next several years.

The Lilly deal, a long time in the offing for the 120-acre business park just east of the Jack Lynch Tunnel, will see the O’Flynn Group construct this second, fourth-generation office building to be called Island Hall.