After being ravaged by fire, there's light at the end of the tunnel for Cork's Sunbeam site

Blackpool's rebound continues as city site ravaged by fire 21 years ago comes back up for sale for €4m

Sunbeam site Blackpool Cork city 4.3 acres expected to make c €4m via agent Jeremy Murphy.

TWENTY one years after being ravaged by fire, a part of Cork city’s industrious past has come up for sale, for new uses — bright days might indeed beckon once more for the former Sunbeam site in born-again Blackpool.

Listed this month is a brownfield site of 4.3 acres next to Blackpool Retail Park which was once part of a major employer that had 4,000 workers at peak, dwindling to several hundred workers before being gutted by fire in September 2003.