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CBA Quarterly Newsletter 2017 Summer 2017 / Q2 ork onnected CC www.corkbusiness.ie CBA CELEBRATING 60 YEARS: 4 REMEMBRANCE: 6 CBA NEWS: 8 NEW MEMBERS: 10 INFRASTRUCTURE: 12 FESTIVALS & TOURISM 14 SECURITY: 16 CBA AWARDS: 17 SOCIAL: 18 Bi-Monthly Newsletter SPONSORED BY Proud to support The Cork Business Association Welcome to the Cork Business Association’s OUR STRENGTH IS IN OUR NUMBERS. Welcome to quarterly magazine Cork Connected. We are the We focus on the following areas: Retail, Hospitality, voice of businesses in Cork, and we are dedicated to Tourism, City Infrastructure, Public Realm Issues, Cork Business promoting their interests at local and national level, Rates, Rents, Parking, Anti-social Behaviour, Crime, and Cork City as the premier commercial and tourist Street Cleaning, Casual Trading, Litter Control, Association’s destination in the Southern region of Ireland. Business Advice, Flood and Weather Alerts, Graffiti Removal, Business Awards, Marketing of Cork, bi-monthly The Cork Business Association ensures that you Networking and Social Events. have a stronger voice when dealing with local and newsletter national issues that affect your business. uch has been written of late about the on passion. I deal with many groups who are just as imbalance between Dublin and the rest of the passionate about Cork City. But it’s their passion for the Mcountry. It would appear that anything outside factual that I’m struggling with. In the Millennium Hall President’s of the M50 is a different country. By every measurable I listened to one of their speakers hold Venice up as an means Dublin seems to be draining the life blood from all example of a city which Cork should learn from. Fact; the address regions. If Dublin Bus, Luas, and the Dart were on strike population of Venice has halved in the last thirty years, for 20 days I think there would be a revolution fact; Venice has recently been described as hellish by day Yet nothing was heard on the economic and social and empty by night, fact; the locals recently took to the damage caused to Cork, Limerick, Galway and the rest streets to protest at what is happening to their city. of the country by the bus strike. Nothing of businesses I listened to their argument about a River Lee lost behind struggling, staff on short time, people unable to get to 6ft high walls if the OPW plan goes ahead. Yet nowhere in hospital appointments, NOTHING! It is time for our public their proposal is there a plan for anything higher than 1.2 representatives to wake up and start delivering. It must metres (3ft.11inches) and in total there is only 5% extra be country first, party second, time to get the finger out walls proposed. guys. Save our City also talk about the €195m tidal barrage the I have always tried to keep an open mind regarding OPW this would actually cost closer to €500m. So please other people’s opinions. They may not always convince in the interest of Cork City, which we are all passionate me, but as long as they are honest and passionate and about, let’s have honest, costed realistic facts and less of Pat O’Connell, have the facts to back up their argument that’s fine. If the scare mongering. President, the facts stand up they may very well convince me and Cork Business Association there’s the rub. During the past few weeks I have had Pat O’Connell of Kay O’Connell’s Fish Merchants, English quite a bit of interaction with the Save our City group. Market Cork and President of Cork Business Association. I admire their zeal but they do not have a monopoly he arrival of Spring signals brighter evenings, massive confidence boost for the city and the region. CEO’s warmer weather and that general feeling of It was also confirmed that JCD will build a new 50,000 address Tpositivity, this winter the weather was not sq. office development fronting onto the South Mall in too unkind but in many other ways it has taken a centre of the city’s traditional office and commercial considerable toll. Sadly since I wrote my last notes to you, zone. To balance these south channel developments we have lost Owen O’Callaghan and James O Sullivan, we also learned of a new 65000 sq. ft. landmark office two great friends of the CBA. Their contribution of course building on Camden Place which will help to rejuvenate encompassed so much more than their involvement with a section of the city’s northern quays. To put this into our organisation. We will attempt in a special tribute to perspective Apple currently employs 5000+ people in try and describe what these two irreplaceable people Cork; these three new developments alone have the meant to us in the CBA. potential to deliver over 4000 new jobs to the city when The impact of the recent Bus Eireann dispute has complete. Our congratulations also go to start–up guru been considerable. Here in Cork one could clearly see DC Cahalane on his new 15,500sq.ft, business innovation the negative effect this had on footfall in the city and hub called the Republic of Work on Cork’s South Mall - consequently on sales. Critical issues such as these must this will not be just for start-ups alone but for a range of Lawrence Owens, be handled better and I expected much more from our different business types that are focussed on the future CEO, elected representatives who seemed more preoccupied of work. Cork Business Association with the fallout from Irish Water than the impact this It is also anticipated that the MacKinnon review group dispute was having. set up by Minister Simon Coveney in October 2016 to Contact details: We also saw elements of the Cork City Centre Movement have a fresh look at the local government arrangements Cork Business Association, strategy being introduced and whilst we broadly support in Cork will report soon. This group are to examine the Waterfront Business Centre, its objectives. We can’t support the decision to extend majority merger report and minority city boundary 5 Lapps Quay, pay parking from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on dozens of streets extension report issued by the Cork Local Government Cork City. between Grenville Place on the west to Liberty St and Review (or Smiddy Group) in September 2015. However Grattan St to the east, including an area around the Mercy it is important to note that their terms of reference differ Email: [email protected] University Hospital. This move is counterproductive and in so far as they are being asked specifically to consider Tel: 021 427 8295 will have a negative effect on business particularly on Cork City’s role and potential as a centre for regional Fax: 021 427 8294 those in the hospitality sector. We somewhat understand economic growth as well as having the governance Web: www.Corkbusiness.ie the logic in reducing the two hour zone to a one hour necessary to protect and enhance what is described as zone to free up parking for residents but extending pay the metropolitan interests of the city. The fundamental Find us on M C parking to 8.30pm will be damaging to businesses in the point is that the status quo can’t be allowed continue and area and we have asked that this decision be rescinded. the impasse that is effecting the operation of both the However it is important we stay positive and with this in city council in particular and also the county council is mind, we were delighted to hear news of some exciting resolved. Design and layout: Edward Butt new development projects in the city. The big one of Edited by Niamh Murphy - ETC, the Events, course was the granting of planning permission for the Lawrence Owens, Tourism & Communications Agency, OCP Navigation Square. This €90m build encompassing CEO Cork Business Association. and Lawrence Owens – Cork Business Association. 310,000 sq. ft. which could facilitate up 3000 jobs is a Cork Business Association April 2015 3 CORK BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, CELEBRATING 60 YEARS President Michael D Higgins with his wife Sabina with CBA president Claire Nash and Cork Business Association members, during his visit to Nash 19 on Princess Street in 2015 Opening of Tourist Hut on Patrick Street - Maurice Bergin, Elizabeth Kearns (Cork City Ray Doherty, Linda Nolan, James O’Sullivan, Sean Murphy Gaol), Lord Mayor Jim Corr, Ray Doherty and Sean Flynn Lord Mayor Colm Burke, Sean Murphy, Johnny Crowley (Heineken) Taken in Lord Mayors Office - Carmel McCarthy, Maureen Doran, Lady Mayoress Grace President CBA Frank Hanley Wallace, John Macken, Dan Buggy, Damian Wallace Lord Mayor, James O’Sullivan 4 Cork Business Association Frank Hanley, Maureen Doran, John Macken, Lawrence Owens. Seated: Damian Wallace (Lord Mayor) John Macken CBA President at CBA Executive Meeting Robin O’Sullivan, James O’Sullivan, Michael Geary Maureen Doran, James O’Sullivan, Joe Gavin (City Manager) Johnny Crowley (Heineken), Frank Hanley, Claire Nash, Dan Buggy, John Macken, P. J. Hourican Tom Murphy (Irish Examiner) James O’Sullivan Seamus Heaney and Jim Higgins (City manager) James O’Sullivan, John Macken, Maureen Doran, Lawrence Owens, Joe Duke (Dunnes Stores) Emer Connolly (AIB) CBA Executive visit to Lord Mayor. Seated Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress P.J. and CBA Executive at Greenes Restaurant Seated: Liz McAvoy (Cork City Challenge), Susan Hourican, James O’Sullivan CBA. Back: Dan Buggy CCC, Maureen Doran CBA, Joe Gavin (City Manager) James O’Sullivan, John Macken, Back: Lawrence Owens, City Manager Joe Gavin and John Macken CBA.
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