The ‘old’ West End of Mallow is where so much of the future is taking shape
RENOWNED as an age-old hub of living and shopping in Mallow, the West End of the town is reaching into the 21st Century with a new lease of life.
Here is a wonderful blend of the old and the new, where elegant victorian dwellings coexist with modern living, and where the further development of Mallow town, and its people, is having a transformative effect.
With anchor tenants life Dairygold, and the Co-op Superstore as well as Mallow College of Further Education, the business life of the West End has an eclectic mix of trades and services, retail and professional. And with a busy footfall, the West End always has a bustling feel to it.
Literally a stand-out feature of the West End is the Dairygold facility, which is key to the prosperity of not only Mallow but also much of Cork and Munster.
Dairygold’s new Dairy Processing Complex is currently in the middle of it second peak milk season having been commissioned last year in time for the 2016 peak milk deliveries. Milk deliveries to Dairygold have risen by approximately 24% since quotas were removed in 2014 and Mallow is a critical to processing the Co-op’s peak milk volumes.
Dairygold’s €86 million regeneration of the Mallow dairy site has established a state-of-theart dairy facility which places the town at the centre of Irish dairy industry into the future. A fitting tribute to a town steeped in dairy tradition.
It is understood that the work underway at the West End entrance is to create a formal visitor reception, customer experience area and catering facilities. All very important elements for a 21st century processing site that is receiving customers from across the globe.
The regeneration of the Mallow site is one element of Dairygold’s post quota expansion plan designed to support the expansion ambitions of its 3,000 milk suppliers.
The construction programme was successfully completed on-schedule, within budget and with a great deal of goodwill from the local Mallow community.
When the plant is fully developed it will have the capacity to process 880 million litres per annum, up from 123 million litres in 2014 with a peak weekly capacity of 12.5 million litres.
390 people were employed on the construction site during peak activity. And of the 47 contractors on site 35 were Cork based.
With work ongoing on the nearby Annabella roundabout it looks like there’s a busy future ahead for the West End of Mallow.