The Furlong Hotel, Motel and Cafe complex in Hawera, a Freehold Going Concern is for sale.

The Furlong Hotel in Hawera, Freehold Going Concern is for sale.

On the outskirts of Hawera north of the city the Furlong Hotel is set in very nice park like surrounds. The Hotel complex is a long building with Reception at the central point with lounge bars and recreation rooms on one side with Karlo’s bar and Café on the other.

The large commercial kitchen, dining room, lounge rooms and previous bars are not used now days but they are ready and available to use through any form of upgrading and renovation.

I see the upgrading for this sector of the hotel being set up for a large sized Rest Home facility if it is not planned for a hotel type complex. Parts of this area are currently suitable for functions and meetings with breakout rooms nearby.
 

Food & Beverage

Karlo's licensed Cafe serves all day breakfasts, with a variety of Bavarian specialty foods, fresh daily baked bread, sandwich bar, freshly made juices and organic coffee.

The Cafe is also used for small business meetings with private seating.
 
Karlo's Bar & Grill is set up for with a blackboard menu. The Bar has a relaxed and friendly atmosphere with live music on occasions with billiards and other pub room games.
 

The Motel

There are 23 cottage style garden studio units which makes up the Motel part of the complex and these units are set back from the main road with a private, quiet outlook over rose gardens.

There is ample parking adjacent to the motel units and also a very large car park for over 20 trucks and trailer units.
 

Brokers Comments

As mentioned above I see the hotels larger portion of the facilities being currently underutilized and that there are very good opportunities to turn the major portion, if not the whole complex, into a Rest Home facility. Developers will see how a conversion using the current shell structures will work as a rest home facility and with the cottage style studio units incorporated into a wider scoped home facility for the elderly.

There is ample space for future development with huge parking lots that can also be made way for housing, related to the home care environment.

The rest home concept would be my best bet however there are ways to look at this combination of Motel, Hotel, Bars, Café, Lounges and function rooms  that will offset creativity mind blasts – but one needs to take a look at it with a thorough site inspection for this to happen.
 

Website : http://www.furlonghotel.co.nz/
 

Contact the Broker

Ross Larsen, the Tourism & Hospitality Business Broker that is acting as the agent for the owner of this property is happy to discuss this property's details with you at any time - refer to the contact details on this page.

Hawera in Southern Taranaki

With a population of 11,000, Hawera is the second-largest town in the Taranaki region of New Zealand's North Island. It is near the coast of the South Taranaki Bight, 75 kilometres south of New Plymouth on State Highway 3 and 20 minutes' drive from Mount Taranaki/Egmont.

It is also on State Highway 45, known as Surf Highway 45 for its numerous surf beaches. State Highway 45 passes through Manaia, Opunake and Oakura en route to New Plymouth. Kaponga is a 20-minute drive to the north-west. The Marton - New Plymouth Line railway passes through Hawera and has served the town since 1 August 1881, though it has been freight-only since the cancellation of the last railcar passenger service between Wellington and New Plymouth on 30 July 1977.

Hawera is Maori for burnt place, from fighting between two local sub-tribes, which culminated in the setting ablaze of the sleeping whare (house) of the tribe under attack.

The name became apt when the town suffered extensive blazes in 1884, 1888, and 1912. For this reason a large water tower was built in the centre of town to increase water pressure; and this became one of Taranaki's best-known landmarks (appearing, for example, on the cover of the 1974 telephone directory). After falling into disrepair the tower was closed to the public in 2001, but after an extensive restoration program it opened again in 2004

Hawera is also home to the largest dairy factory complex in the Southern Hemisphere, "Whareroa", which has its own gas-fired powerplant. The complex is owned by Fonterra, having been built by the former Kiwi Co-operative Dairies Limited (whose original plant opened on that site in 1975).

Hawera is also home to Tawhiti Museum, well-known for its hand-crafted life-sized wax sculptures depicting scenes of local heritage and history, and its scale models of local Maori pa