The Senator made the announcement in a speech urging them to maintain support for developing a major new finance district on the Esplanade car park site.
And he indicated a possible change in policy on the Waterfront, saying that the States-owned Waterfront Enterprise Board ot its successor, the Jersey Development Company, could act as developer and landlord for the scheme, instead of carrying out the work through a third-party.
There is currently no commercial developer attached to the scheme – which will include 400 new flats – after developers Harcourt dropped out when they failed to meet a deadline to prove they had the money to do it.
