Cork Developments

[Bennyton]

A science museum would be good actually, you'd be able to take the kids there, and it's a bit of a laugh, it would bring visitors, etc.

The Crawford, I dunno, does anyone go to galleries anymore? Attendance in the Tate and National gallery is down 49% since 2019.

This will be empty again once built.

 

[El Guapo]

A science museum would be good actually, you'd be able to take the kids there, and it's a bit of a laugh, it would bring visitors, etc.

The Crawford, I dunno, does anyone go to galleries anymore? Attendance in the Tate and National gallery is down 49% since 2019.

This will be empty again once built.

Crawford is great, it got plenty of footfall any time we were there.

Back when the cafe was run by one of the Allens it was the best Breakfast/Lunch spot in the city. The crowd after them were shite.

But it used full of families, tourists and students.

They used to do live events there occasionally too it Is an under appreciated gem in the city. Even if you were just calling in to take a dump

 

[The Duke]

Yeah, it's really terrible.

€93 is mad money too, wasn't that how much we were supposed to spend on the event centre? Any chance we could have that please? Or a proper concert venue, even stick it around the Marina, that would be lovely.

Or houses, that would be good, €93m would build 250 gaffs, that would be good.

I've actually never stepped foot inside the Crawford, to my shame, maybe it'll be not shite, who knows, what would be lovely though, is some green areas, the peace park is now a corridor, and will be a tent village in no time.

This is absolutely insane. When will this country wake up. 93m for an extension to an art gallery when the projected cost in 2020 was 29m! Mother of Christ above. Fine, I get that construction costs have risen but this is extortion. Surely the business case for this scale of investment no longer stacks up; are they now expecting a corresponding 3 fold increase in the number of visitors etc? My hole. If the projected costs have risen by over 300% then you don’t proceed. It no longer represents value for money. Wait till the next recession, retender and see what prices the builders will give you then when they have fuck all projects in the pipeline. This is how the real world works.

 

[Jim Comic]

A science museum would be good actually, you'd be able to take the kids there, and it's a bit of a laugh, it would bring visitors, etc.

the science museum in chigago is fantastic, always go there when i'm in the windy city


the museum is absolutely enormous, so big in fact that they have an actual german u-boat from ww2 in the basement!!!

 

[Bennyton]

the science museum in chigago is fantastic, always go there when i'm in the windy city


the museum is absolutely enormous, so big in fact that they have an actual german u-boat from ww2 in the basement!!!

The ones in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Toronto were all very good too.

Good wholesome fun.

 

[Beaty]

YOYO 93 million? WTF?

And YOYO 7m for Bishop Lucey Park?

That's fucking crazy.

B

 

[How bad boy]

A science museum would be good actually, you'd be able to take the kids there, and it's a bit of a laugh, it would bring visitors, etc.

The Crawford, I dunno, does anyone go to galleries anymore? Attendance in the Tate and National gallery is down 49% since 2019.

This will be empty again once built.

What is the Boole House used for? That'd be the most historically appropriate site for a science museum.

Museums are rarely a specific draw anyway, they're usually something tourists tend to visit while in a city, rather than being a core reason for why tourists pick a destination. Obviously, there are a few high profile exceptions (e.g Guggenheim Bilbao), but I wouldn't bank on it bringing in too many tourists as an activity.

Personally, I'd focus more on making Oliver Plunkett street -> Lapp's Quay almost entirely pedestrianised, obviously with the need to cross Parnell Place and Clontarf Street. It's a bit grim in parts round that part of town, but Lapp's Quay is really one of the very few parts of the city where the waterfront is actually used and not just for parking or roads.

 

[Beaty]

Cork doesn't have the footfall for anything around Lapps Quay....

B

 

[How bad boy]

Cork doesn't have the footfall for anything around Lapps Quay....

B

Due you mean the footfall in the area isn't high enough for anything to be built around Lapp's Quay?

I would suggest that's because the area is a bit neglected...

 

[ikari warrior]

Due you mean the footfall in the area isn't high enough for anything to be built around Lapp's Quay?

I would suggest that's because the area is a bit neglected...

I’ve been overseas hunting Lee Bushwacker for a pint the last while ,having seen Spanish cities
I’m come to the conclusion that we are 150k people short for the current ambitious of the council vis a vis public relm initiatives that can’t be policed or cleaned ,
More housing,bolder decisions by civil servants ,and the empowering of those to be expansive and take risks rather than being risk adverse hidden under the guise of “being responsible “ it’s now clearly needed ,an emergency even.