Waterfront Enterprise Board (WEB) managing director David Margason told members of the Jersey Hospitality Association on Friday that the buildings were not what should have been built there, and that as part of the waterfront masterplan, there are plans to enhance and improve them.
The buildings include the gymnasium, leisure pool and cinema complex.
Mr Margason was speaking at the Grand Hotel at a lunch at which he also told the tourism industry audience that the reason why tall buildings are likely to feature in the final development is because they maximise open space at ground level.
He said the benefits of tall buildings were not only financial and economic, but also social and environmental.
The WEB managing director said that the final development is likely to be somewhere between an international waterfront and a housing estate.
But he vowed that it would be ‘inspirational’ and probably a development where ‘naval architecture meets building architecture’.
He said he had found it a surprise in his time in the job how difficult it is to experiment in Jersey.
‘People tend to say a straightforward yes or no, rather than have a discussion on ideas,’ he said.
