€100m upgrades at Dunkettle interchange to benefit premises
Advance groundworks for the €100m upgrades and urgently needed new routes around Cork’s ‘spaghetti junction’, the Dunkettle interchange, are already taking place: they’re visible around the North Esk area on the edge of Cork City, coming close to the former Ibis hotel/gaelscoil and to this warehouse building on an acre, just up for sale.
“The only change here will be even better access as a result of the investment,” says agent Declan Hickey of Casey & Kingston auctioneers, selling the former base of Fitztpatricks’ Recovery service at North Esk.
The 1995-founded towing, and recovery service, which also operated as a licensed car impounding business for a period, is no longer trading, and its premises is now being disposed of, with a €700,000 price guide quoted by Mr Hickey.
It’s one of several buildings in a cluster, almost in a hide-away at North Esk, just off the M8/N25 road and the end of the N40 at the tunnel, and operating next door is a similar use business, JD Recovery.
The location seems choice for such businesses, given passing traffic estimates of c 100,000 car movement per day at Dunkettle: on the law of averages, some have to need recovery!
Mr Hickey says the former Fitzpatricks site is excellent and can take further development, as currently there’s just a 11,000 sq ft building on a 1.5 acre footprint site.
He suggests the current building could easily be expanded to double or more of its current capacity, subject to planning.
At present, it has warehouse uses, with steel portal frame, 6m eaves, two roller shutter doors, workshop, mezzanine, offices, canteen etc, and is surrounded by palisade fencing, with extensive storage areas.
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