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Planners have given New York-based Tower Holdings the green light for a 34-story, € 140 million hotel and shopping complex in Cork that will be the tallest building in the Republic.
Tower Holdings is part of the New York building empire built by Ballinskelligs, Kerry-born Kevin O’Sullivan, who immigrated to the United States in the 1980s.
The Cork Corporation on Wednesday gave the company permission to build a 34-story hotel, shops, tourist attraction and a micro-distillery on Custom House Quay in the city.
The 34-story tower will be the tallest building in the Republic, beating Dublin’s Capital Dock, a 22-story structure completed last year.
Plans include proposals to rebuild customs warehouses on the site as a maritime museum and commercial area, along with a distillery on the property’s eastern edge.
Tower Holdings welcomed the news. A statement added that it would have to “thoroughly examine all planning conditions and certain details to establish their effect on the scheme.
Review
Submissions criticizing the plans last May argued that the proposal should be considered in light of the likely impact of Covid-19 on demand for hotel rooms in the city.
Tower is also working on the construction of a 20 million euro office at Parnell Place bus station in Cork, which is close to the Custom House Quay site.
The company is O’Sullivan’s business development arm and operates both here and in the US The contracting arm is known as Times Square Construction.
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