Mirvac to manage Queenstown hotel at Kawarau Falls development

By NZPA

Thursday 17th April 2008

Australian-based hotel and resort management company Mirvac Hotels & Resorts is to manage an apartment-style resort at the Kawarau Falls Station development in Queenstown.

Construction of the Quay West brand hotel would start in mid-2009 and it was expected to open in mid-2011, Mirvac said today.

It would include 195 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment-style guestrooms, extensive meeting space, all day restaurant and bar, day spa, gymnasium and swimming pool.

Kawarau Falls developer Melview Developments said the Quay West hotel would bring the total of five-star rooms for Kawarau Falls to 593. Details of the fourth, and final, hotel, Melview's own Quadrant, had yet to be announced.

The first hotel, The Westin Queenstown was being built and due to be finished next year. Construction of an Intercontinental Hotel and The Quadrant would start later this year.

The overall four-year Kawarau Falls Station project on a 7 hectare waterfront site was due to be finished in 2011 and expected to be worth more than $1 billion, Melview said.

It was on schedule and at its peak was expected to be the single largest employer in Queenstown, with about 880 people working on and off the site.

Melview managing director Nigel McKenna said research had found that the hotel brands involved and their affiliated chains would bring significantly increased profile to Queenstown as an international tourism destination.

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