Caravan park MONA’s land of opportunity

PRIME waterfront land ­adjacent to the Museum of Old and New Art will be opened up for development at the end of June.

Caravans at Treasure Island Caravan Park

PRIME waterfront land ­adjacent to the Museum of Old and New Art will be opened up for development at the end of June.

The Glenorchy City Council has not renewed the lease of the Treasure Island Caravan Park on the Berriedale Foreshore and will soon be calling for expressions of interest for the area.

Glenorchy Mayor Kristie Johnston said the caravan park lease arrangement expired at the end of the financial year.

“This will be an amazing opportunity for an experienced developer to work with a rare piece of foreshore land,” she said.

The land was zoned Open Space under the Glenorchy Planning Scheme, which allowed a tourist facility, as well as other uses, she said.

In September 2013, Glenorchy council endorsed a proposal for it to work with MONA to jointly develop a masterplan for the Berriedale Reserve area.

In his autobiography A Bone of Fact, released last year, MONA owner David Walsh wrote “we would like to take over a nearby caravan park and get artists to jazz up the caravans and the little huts so that we would have accommodation at the lower end of the price scale”.

A MONA spokeswoman told the Mercury it would read the expression of interest document when it is released and consider options at that time.

The expression of interest documentation will go through an internal council review and the process is due to begin in a few weeks, with advertisements to appear in the Mercury and website Tenderlink.