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Blarney talks the talk and walks the walk as FedEx delivers another coup for Blarney Business Park

January 13, 2022

JCD Group now have FedEx,  DHL and GLS all wrapped up in rejuvenated business park. NOW living up to its internationally-recognized address is the successfully rebooted Blarney Business Park in Cork – it’s not only talking the talk, but it is also walking the walk, delivering especially to the logistics,…

Logitech’s move to new Cork offices signals hundreds of new jobs

July 29, 2021

Construction underway by the JCD Group on a new office development in Mahon. One of the largest suburban Cork office deals in recent years may see hundreds of new jobs at IT company Logitech, which has had a presence in Ireland since 1988 and is now on a strong growth…

JCD Group ramps up delivery of logistics space in Cork

June 17, 2021

Developer set to offer a further 172,500sq ft across three units at Blarney Business Park Cork-based developer, the JCD Group, is ramping up the development of logistics space at Blarney Business Park following the decision by doTerra to open its first manufacturing operation outside the United States at the scheme. The…

Numbers working at Cork’s Penrose Dock to grow significantly

June 8, 2021

The numbers working at Penrose Dock, the new office complex at the heart of Cork’s new docklands, are expected to grow to more than 1,600. The figure was revealed as Taoiseach Micheál Martin, and Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney both visited the development to meet with site leads of…

Award-winning Penrose Dock goes for second gong

May 26, 2021

CORK TAKES THE HONOURS FOR BUILDING OF THE YEAR,  AND THERE COULD BE MORE GLORY IN STORE, WRITES CATHERINE SHANAHAN. FRESH from its success in taking the top prize in a national architecture competition, Building of the Year, achingly hip Penrose Dock, is set to compete against the crème de…

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…