Developers behind a massive $115 million proposal to transform New Plymouth’s port area are confident the project will go ahead despite resource consent being denied.

Seaport Land Company, made up of Taranaki businessmen Russell Nagel, Paul Hagenson, Ben Hawke, and David Hawke, want to turn the former Fonterra cool stores in Moturoa into apartments, offices, shops and restaurants.

A one-off zoning change around Port Taranaki has paved the way for the multi-million dollar redevelopment of the Fonterra Coolstores into a business, residential and hospitality hub.

For the last five years Seaport Land Company (SLC) has been pushing for a $100 million plus redevelopment of the industrial area next to Ngamotu Beach into a mix of shops, offices, cafes, bars and apartments.

STUFF ARTICLE: There were baches along Ngāmotu Beach, a fish and chip shop, a dairy, a pub, a Māori arts and crafts centre, and a thriving bowling club where port workers would go and play while looking out over the ocean. Now, land sits empty where these buildings once stood.