Hotelier buys Camden Quay site for €3.5m

Second bid for a Cork hotel by John Kajani, who owns hotels in London, Dublin and Waterford

A computer-generated view of the planned Camden Place office development.

A prominent quayside Cork city building/site has been bought for €3.5 million by an UK/Irish group with hotels development and ownership background, but who failed to get planning approval two years ago for a 146-bed budget hotel on the city’s South Terrace.

Now changed hands is the high-profile, cleared c half acre Camden Place property on Camden Quay, facing Cork’s Opera House, and 75 metres from St Patrick’s Bridge.