T.H.C. looks at options

Press, 24 September 1984, Page 6

T.H.C. looks at options

PA Dunedin The Tourist Hotel Corporation has bought back the former Buckham’s brewery foreshore site in Queenstown, and announced it may be the site for the corporation’s proposed hotel. The Cabinet on Monday approved the corporation’s plan to investigate building a hotel in the resort. Corporation officials and Queenstown Borough councillors discussed options yesterday. The corporation sold the site in August, 1978, to two Queenstown men, Messrs J. F. Freemantle and R. H. Brown, who intended to build a small luxury hotel. The 106-year-old malt

house was demolished in June, 1978, three days before the zoning of the land as a historic site was to be discussed by the council. The site has been vacant since then.

The corporation’s general manager of finance, Mr T. Di-Mattina, said it was now up to the corporation to approach the council and the community with firm proposals. T.H.C. hotels were well known for their gardens and discussions with the council included the possibility of a landscape plan for Queenstown extending to the lake front, but preserving public access.

“We are looking for a' low-rise development, carefully integrated into the bay for minimum impact,” Mr Di-Mattina said.

“There is a feeling this may be accomplished by nestling the hotel into reserve land and we want to explore that in case it is an option.”