The developers of the long awaited Cork Event Centre have insisted that they are fully committed to the project and hope to be in a position to commence construction by the end of the year, with completion scheduled for late 2020 or early 2021. BAM Ireland CEO Theo Cullinane re-iterated his company’s commitment to delivering the 6,000 seater event centre on the site of the former Beamish & Crawford brewery on South Main Street in conjunction with US event management company, Live Nation. But Mr Cullinane cautioned that the company will have to resubmit the project for planning because of a change of use. This involves the redesign of the original plan which will see some office space being forfeited for the event centre arena on the South Main Street side of the site. “This is a project that Cork has been talking about for about 25 years, there had been six or seven attempts to deliver this project ever before we got involved in it.

Source: The Irish Times May 24, 2018 08:03 UTC