Jury’s to be knocked in €160m revamp

PROPERTY tycoon Owen O’Callaghan yesterday announced he is to demolish Cork’s Jury’s Hotel in a €160 million redevelopment that will see the loss of 250 jobs.

The jobs will be lost over a two-year period before the redeveloped Lancaster Quay location opens with a new six-storey hotel, 300 apartments and 450 underground parking spaces.

O'Callaghan Properties bought Jury's Hotel and its four-acre site on the city's Western Road for a fee believed to be over €3m.