Improvement proposals for Cork Street Dublin 9 by Mitchell and Associates and Dublin City Council 2003. Its analysis of the corridor after road widening included: "extremely poor quality" "visually dysfunctional" "disintegration of the built fabric" There were c14 vacant sites about half owned by DCC. These were all developed over the next few years post-2003. Some of the improvement proposals made by Mitchells were implemented subsequently, and others remain to be carried out. Development has recommenced again with for example a lovely renewal of St Lukes Church by Derek Tynan and Carraig with a dramatic landscaped area in front by Bernard Seymour.