Meet Nicholas Warden and Jesse Xu, the men behind Mosman Property Group and the proposed redevelopment of the Nowra Gateway caravan park site.
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The company has purchased the caravan park on the south eastern side of the Shoalhaven River crossing at Nowra, with the plan to redevelop the site with a hotel, restaurants and cafes and to provide a more appealing entry to Nowra.
The pair say it is a project they are "excited to be part of".
Their proposal is for hotel rooms sitting above waterfront cafés and family restaurants, with all rooms orientated toward the Shoalhaven River and Cambewarra Mountain range.
A landscaped terrace in front of the restaurants will feature outdoor dining atop the riverbank and tie in with hotel conference facilities.
The second stage of the proposal will include apartment accommodation of varying sizes toward the rear of the Pleasant Way property, but still with river and mountain views.
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"It is only early days," Nicholas said.
"We know that. We still have a lot of work to do, with council and other authorities to achieve the best outcome for the community and the site.
"While the site is zoned special use and tourist accommodation is already actually permitted and we could develop the hotel immediately, we are looking for a mixed use business rezoning which would also allow the restaurants and cafes and eventually the residential living component.
"That rezoning alone could take up to two years.
"This is a key location, sites like this on the riverfront with so many positive attributes and potential don't come up very often. It is rare to be able to unlock such land, and we want to get it right."
Nicholas Warden is no stranger to Nowra. He was born, raised and educated here.
"For the first 18 years of my life I lived within three kilometres of the location on the banks of the Shoalhaven River, in Lyrebird Drive and at Terara," he said.
After completing his education at Nowra High School, he went to UWS Hawkesbury in 1989, completing a Bachelor of Business and Land Economy, qualifying as a valuer, a career he continued until 2005.
He completed his Masters in Town Planning in 2006, and held various roles in real estate from valuation, development management, property finance and insolvency.
Through the GFC he worked in pure insolvency, undertaking loan work-outs on behalf of some of Australia's major banks.
The 50-year-old has been undertaking developments in his own right since 2000.
In 2015 he started his own development management business, undertaking predominantly residential and mixed use developments on a larger scale, with up to 750 units in one project.
"I've undertaken a lot of front end development activity from site acquisition, assembling project teams, managing concept design, planning approval and overseeing construction, sales, marketing as well as arranging finance all the way through to registration of land title," he said.
For 16 years he has also owned and operated a hotel in Tumut.
Jesse Xu was born in China and came to Australia in 2006 as a 16-year-old from Xiamen in the province of Fujian.
The now 31-year-old completed a Bachelor of Environmental Science at Melbourne RMIT in 2012 and a Masters in Business Property in 2014.
His father has a background in development in China, and they decided to start a business in Australia.
"I met Nick in 2015-16 and we worked together on a property project we purchased in Liverpool in Sydney," he said.
After they completed the 210 unit complex, Jesse and Nick launched their own business, Mosman Property Group, in April last year.
"We are very excited about the project in Nowra," Jesse said.
"It is a beautiful location and we see this as a long-term project for us.
"We want to create affordable, good quality accommodation and a facility that is in keeping with the location and the area."
The pair are currently developing a 38-room hotel, restaurant and manager's residence complex in Wodonga.
While planning for the Nowra project continues, it is understood the hotel component could be at least 70 rooms.