US entrepreneur at helm of Queenstown Marina plans

US entrepreneur at helm of Queenstown Marina plans
Making waves: consents are slow in the south. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Staff reporters
Developers of Queenstown's first marina catering to larger vessels will add another 100 berths at Frankton Arm in the wake of significant private and commercial demand. The first, 85-berth stage, built at a cost of $20 million, was a decade in the making after the Queenstown Lakes district council named Lakes Marina Projects (LMP) as its preferred developer in December 2012. LMP, majority-owned by Las Vegas-based tech entrepreneur Iraj Barabi and local building consultant Alan Kirker, applied for resource consent for the marina, i...

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