Boots adds to chemistry of St Patrick Street

A WELL-SET St Patrick Street Cork city retail investment directly opposite the completed and fully occupied Capitol mixed use development, which is let to Boots Chemists and earning a current annual income of €540,000 is for sale, guiding €5.75 million.

Agent Pat Kirwan of GVA Donal O Buachalla has the sale of 71-72 St Patrick’s Street, at the western end and corner of Cork’s main shopping boulevard with St Peter and Paul’s Lane, which links to Paul Street, next to the architecturally important St Peter and Paul’s 19th century church.

He describes it as high-end commercial investment property, fronting St Patrick’s Street, next to a Bank of Ireland branch. Directly across the road is the John Cleary Developments Capitol scheme, redeveloped and now home to Lifestyle Sports, HomeSense, the rebuilt Oyster bar and restaurant, and overhead offices, with Facebook’s Oculus, Huawei and Alien Vault as key occupiers.