Planning granted for 16-storey office tower on Cork's former Sextant site

The JCD Group last year switched plans to offices, from a proposed 25-storey apartment tower

CGI view of the planned office development on Albert Quay.

PLANNING permission has just been granted for what will be Cork City’s tallest office block, a €100m building of 16-storeys facing the River Lee, with a plaza and redeveloped former railway buildings, on Albert Quay and Albert Street.

The approval for the tall office block – twice the height of any existing Cork office building to date - comes after the developers the JCD Group last year switched plans to offices, from a proposed €125m 25-storey ‘build-to-rent’ apartment tower with 200 apartments, citing the financial non-viability of apartments on the site which would need rents of €2,800 pe month to work.