PHOTO: A concept image of the proposed Grand Mount Earnslaw Hotel.
A developer proposing a “grand” lakefront hotel for a high-profile lake-front site in Glenorchy is behind several projects planned for the small Otago town.
Doug Rikard-Bell has applied to the Queenstown Lakes District Council to build and operate the 64-room Grand Mount Earnslaw Hotel on the site of the former Mt Earnslaw Hotel, which burned to the ground in 1959. He paid $2.5m for the 8079sqm site.
The design report describes the proposal as “deeply respectful” and acknowledges the prominent lake front site in the middle of the town is “a terribly important holding in Glenorchy”.
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