Cork's two towers: PJ Hegarty to reprise Elysian 20 years on at taller 85m high Railyard tower
Due on site now after an almost two decade hiatus in Cork's 'towering ambitions' is Railyard apartments, a cost rental led/social housing scheme of 217 homes in a 24 storey tower, in a joint development between JCD Group and Cork City Council on Albert Street/Albert Quay, just 200 metres downriver of City Hall.
Lead contractor on the 85m tall Railyard is Cork-based PJ Hegarty, who delivered the then-tallest Irish building The Elysian at 71m/233' (or 79m high inc the antenna) over a double basement in 2007/2008, on a site acquired by O'Flynn Group from An Post.
Hegarty's also did significant office schemes at Cork's Penrose Dock and 85 South Mall for Railyard developers JCD Group and they did the city's first significant docklands development, City Quarter, also over a double basement, for Howard Holdings in the mid-2000s.
Currently, Ireland's tallest tower is the Obel building in Belfast at 85 metres, with 233 apartment plus offices. Dublin's tallest apartment building in the mixed use Capital Dock, with 190 units in a c €280m 690,000 sq ft scheme done by Kennedy Wilson/Nama.
Capital Dock by O'Mahony Pike.
Cork's Railyard scheme will drop from a 24 storey tower to 11 and nine floors with public realm, and will integrate part of the former Blackrock and Passage rail line terminus/heritage buildings: the former Sextant bar was demolished in August 2020.
Lost bearings: the Sextant bar site is about to reach new heights
Sign of the times: Jonny O'Mahony and Michael Droney putting up the Sextant boat sign on the wall of their bar at Albert Quay in 2009.
Plans for the site initially were for a 201 unit Buy to Rent scheme in a 25 story tower; when this proved financially unviable, plans were amended for offices, and later a partnership deal with Cork City Hall for cost-rental-led homes ensure the start plans for next month after a Part 8 approval with the Council in October 2024.
Railyard Apartments was designed by award winning architects Henry J Lyons, in collaboration with tall building specialist architect Richard Coleman of City Designer. Henry J Lyons also designed Dublin's College Square (currently under construction), a 82 metre 22 story tower with 11 floors of offices and 11 of apartments, near Trinity College and Tara Street.
Meanwhile, the planning clock is ticking down on the plans for a 34 storey/140 metres hotel tower on the Port of Cork site for US-based developer Tower Group, with planning cleared by An Bord Pleanala in October 2021.
Site drilling at the Custom House/Port of Cork in 2017 where a hotel and high rise tower was approved by An Bord Pleanala.
Close-by, c 300 apartments are under advanced construction at Horgans Quay after the Land Development Agency (LDA) got involved with private developers Clarendon/BAM in a mixed use scheme, with tenure aimed at cost-rental (c200) plus up to 100 private purchasers under Croí Cónaithe assistance.
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