Hotel may be added to Cork's iconic Roches Stores/Debenhams store by new owners

Sports chain Intersport Elverys to anchor three stores facing onto St Patrick Street, with hopes for a mid-2024 opening after four years vacant 

It's a wrap:  hoarding erected at the front of the former Debenhams/ Roches Stores building on St Patrick's Street, Cork. Pic: Larry Cummins

A REOPENING of Cork’s iconic Roches Stores/Debenhams large department store building is being slated for the middle of next year by its new Irish owners, Intersport Elverys, with plans for a hotel of up to 180 bedrooms toward the rear of the 1.6 acre city centre site.

'Roches Stores' is an icon, rebuilt in the 1920s after the Burning of Cork