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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…