Tall & Urban News

Revised plans for a new 34-story hotel tower have been unveiled as part of the redevelopment of Cork City’s Custom House Quay site.

The Tower Holdings Group—a New York City-based development company with Irish owners—unveiled the new plans 12 July 2019 as part of a significant development of the city’s Cork Harbour Commissioners site.

The sale of the site was agreed upon by Port of Cork for approximately EUR€5 million (US$5.6 million) two years ago. The planned development will cost approximately EUR€150 million (USD$169 million) and construction will create around 400 jobs. Once the building phase is over, there could be up to 800 people working there across retail, office, and hospitality.

At 34 stories, the tower could become one of the tallest buildings in Ireland, surpassing Capital Dock in Dublin and The Elysian in Cork. It will be a 240-bed hotel with 25 apartments.

The developers say that the proposed development will include “a program of cultural events, retail, food and beverage businesses, office space, and recreational areas which will be fully accessible to the public, in an effort to create a realm for the wider community.”

Director of operations with the Tower Holdings Ireland, Conor Lee, said that the Custom House Quay development will be “the centerpiece of Cork’s new business district.”

“For the first time ever, this entire area will be fully opened up to the people of Cork,” he said.

The tower will be designed by architecture firm Gensler in conjunction with Henry J Lyons as local architects. A formal planning application for the development is expected to be lodged in late July.

For more on this story, go to The Journal.ie.