It has issued a "request for information" on the Government Electronic Tenders Service website seeking feedback on a proposed council office building on Stanley St and parking buildings on the existing Boundary and Ballarat St car park sites.
The request's purpose is to "inform interested parties about the projects, communicate the council's objectives and solicit feedback through a written questionnaire and face-to-face meetings".
The projects are in the council's proposed 10-year plan, which is set for adoption on June 28.
Council corporate services general manager Meaghan Miller said the council was "sounding out the market" before its final decisions on the 10-year plan, and wanted to explore "all possible funding avenues" for delivering the projects.
In December, the council agreed to fund a business case for developing one office to house its staff. At present staff are spread across four buildings.
The request describes a 4200sq m building on Stanley St with a $42.3million price tag.
As well as office space, the building would house the council chamber, an emergency operations centre and a customer service hub.
It could also house an "interim" 600sq m library while a site for a dedicated library in the town centre was identified.
The proposed 10-year plan also allocates funds for a 242-space parking building at the Boundary St site, to be completed by mid-2020 at a cost of $18.3million, and a 350-space facility at the Ballarat St site, which would be finished a year later for $25.8million.
The council received about 580 submissions on the proposed 10-year plan when consultation ended last month.
Public hearings were held in Queenstown on Tuesday and Wanaka yesterday.
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In light of the media coverage this week of the consequences to Queenstown of a major earthquake from landslides and seismic tsunami, an emergency operations centre in Stanley Street seems a little silly.
This facility should be sited above the level of the Kingston outlet, which would be Hallenstien Street or the upper levels of the Frankton Flats. Stanley Street could leave the community stranded in the event of a major earthquake. The results of this quake won't be pretty for Queenstown, but let's have a fighting chance of a response and not have the emergency operations centre flooded either in the initial event or by subsequent flooding from landslides down the gorge.
The logical, and resilient approach would be to site the Council offices, and emergency operations centre at Frankton Flats, or on land up Hansen Road.