Author: Emma


Ibec plans ‘Munster Hub’ as it becomes latest to take up residence at Penrose Dock

December 10, 2020

Business body Ibec is set to expand and recruit new staff with a Q2 2021 move to landmark Cork city office development, JCD Group’s Penrose Dock. A MOVE by Irish business representative body Ibec to a new ‘Munster hub’ in Cork’s Penrose Dock office development brings the €125m, 250,000 sq…

New kid on the block: Why everyone will want to work at Penrose Dock

December 10, 2020

IT’S work Jim, but not as we know it. At Penrose Dock, Cork city’s newest high-level hipster workplace, the notion of not wanting an office job is thoroughly laid to rest. Amid wacky armchairs that resemble giant sea sponges, a black leather sofa in the shape of a canoe, break-out…

JCD Group secures tenants for 75% of Penrose Dock office scheme

September 16, 2020

Line up at 250,000sq ft Cork office campus includes Grant Thornton and Matheson While the Covid-19 pandemic continues to fuel commentary in relation to the future of the office, the reports of its much-anticipated demise don’t appear to have made it as far as Cork. Having commenced the construction in…

More than 60% of the Penrose Dock office development in Cork has been reserved

March 11, 2020

A strong flavour of FDI, cybersecurity and data protection companies feature in the major 250,000sq ft Penrose Dock, Cork city, office scheme, with a June opening date confirmed this week by developers JCD Group. They said more than 60%, or 150,000sq ft, has now been reserved in the project, by…

New Flexi Workspace at Penrose Dock

December 18, 2019

Standing on the outdoor roof-top terrace of the rapidly completing 250,000 sq ft Penrose Dock office scheme on Cork’s North Quays docklands, developer John Cleary looks south over the River Lee, and then downriver, to the east. The JCD group MD says,“over there was the last 15 years….and down there…

Popular health food cafe Naturally Nourished to open in Cork City

November 28, 2019

They have been unveiled as the latest tenant of the Penrose Dock Development. Popular health food cafe Naturally Nourished are set to open a new outlet in Cork City centre after the success of their cafe in City Gate Park. The Cork company specialise in salads, healthy hot dishes, sandwiches…

€10m boost for Blarney Business Park

November 28, 2019

Investment worth a further €10m is set to flow into Cork’s Blarney Business Park, in a significant speculative drive forward by the park’s new owners, JCD Group. They pledge to invest further sums and to develop “all the land at the campus in the next two years: this investment will…

Grant Thornton to double Cork staff with new office at Penrose Dock

October 25, 2019

One of the world’s most prominent professional consultancy services is to open a new office in Cork, with the potential to more than double its workforce in the city. Grant Thornton, the world’s seventh largest professional services network, currently employs around 105 people at its two Cork offices on South…

Docklands plan to see Cork skyline hit new heights with country’s tallest building

June 27, 2019

Cork’s skyline is set to reach new heights with the country’s tallest building planned for the city’s docklands. The 25-storey tower, next to fully occupied 17-storey Elysian development, has been unveiled by developers JCD on the former Sextant bar and existing Carey Tool Hire site on Albert Quay and Albert…

Sustainability hits new South Mall office heights

May 23, 2019

The first new office building to be constructed on Cork city’s South Mall in a generation is 35% more energy efficient than comparable buildings, constructed even up to just a decade ago. That’s the achievement of 85 South Mall, a 45,000 sq ft Gold LEED office block snuck into a…