{"id":193738,"date":"2025-12-15T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193738\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:40:11","slug":"iconic-cork-city-department-store-building-set-for-a-bright-rebirth-as-new-plan-gets-the-green-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/193738\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Cork City department store building set for a bright rebirth as new plan gets the green light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The former Roches Stores\/Debenhams department store was one of the key retail buildings in the city, before becoming vacant in April 2020\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The site of the former Roches Stores\/Debenhams. Photo: Creative Commons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/b7e2e3a2-4748-40a2-a757-c82986679c04.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The site of the former Roches Stores\/Debenhams. Photo: Creative Commons<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Cork City Council has given the green light on planning for a landmark building, out of use for several years, to finally be brought back into use as a retail space.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The former Roches Stores\/Debenhams building has been idle since April 2020, and is often cited as one of the largest eyesores in the city, which has attracted significant vandalism to its windows and fa\u00e7ade, as well as the main entrance on St Patrick\u2019s Street being used by as a shelter for rough sleepers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Roches Stores\/Debenhams department store was one of the key retail buildings in the city, before becoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,1718],"class_list":["post-193738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kevin-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}