The company has been working to develop a large office complex on what is now the Esplanade car park to create the Jersey International Finance Centre – a dedicated site for the Island’s finance industry and other large businesses.
The scheme, which forms part of a 2008 States-approved masterplan for the area, has proved controversial but Mr Boleat, who also oversees development projects in London as chairman of the City of London Policy and Resources Committee, said that thinks the public are being critical of the JDC for acting as a developer – the very reason for which the company was formed.
Full interview in the weekend edition of the JEP.
