Let's make New Zealand one of these 5 countries ASAP!
OK, well let's at least crack the "Top-10" to start with!
With Dubai currently being "#1" on the "Top-10" list and Australia at #5, sad to note that New Zealand is not on this exclusive "club" list.
Not good, but pretty simple to crank up foreign millionaire investor interest.
Just reinstate the previous NZ$10M Investor Visa program and increase sensitive land purchase threshold to NZ$15M as in Australia. Then watch lifestyle agribiz investments such as horticultural orchards fly off the shelf as foreign UHNW / HNW investors start to "Call NZ Home"
Our Showcase has a fabulous location.
Being only 500 meters from the Hilton "Mega-Yacht" pier, gateway to the vast yacht mooring / marina district of America's "Venice", (i.e. Ft Lauderdale), the Showcase location is top notch. With a car park annex directly off SE 17th St, the Showcase has a number of shops around that cater to the yachting industry. Of course, with "Waxy's Irish Pub" being only two doors away, "Quarterdeck" 100 yds away, Pier -66 Marina 800 yds away and the new Hilton Marina Hotel 500 yds away, we have great spots where deals can be put together in a vibrant marina environment.
This huge yachting community is our neighbor.
Ft Lauderdale, FL is called the "Venice of America" and based on the number of "resident" yachts present at any one time, regarded by many as being the "yachting capital" of the world.
Interface the huge yachting community with the cruise liner facilities in Port Miami and Port Everglades, (Ft Lauderdale), this SE coastal region of Florida is home to some of America's most renown corporate leaders, movie stars. rock icons & sports stars. This making Miami-Dade, Broward County a great home for a "Showcase" displaying NZ agribiz sanctuary investment opportunities in a region with some of America's wealthiest ZIP codes whose residents own ocean going, blue water yachts.
So let's invite these ocean loving people down to NZ!
Many of them know that New Zealand is a yacht owners paradise. Stretching from Dunedin in the deep south, all the way up the east coast dropping into marinas' along the way. Hawkes Bay, Gisborne, Tauranga / Bay of Plenty, Coromandel, Auckland, Whangarei, through to the magical Bay-of-Islands, its magnificent bays and our colonial era founding place.
Now if every marina and yacht club in New Zealand reached out to their counterparts in America from Maine to Washington state, offering them reciprocity, many members of these clubs would set a course for the South Pacific and the islands of NZ, putting us into that "Top-10" club.
With the US "Meet 'n Greet" process starting here.
Yes of course, while the "final showcase product" will have much better kerbside appeal than this concept knock-up, its whats "inside" that counts.
As owners of the freehold, our plan provides for all 16 regions of New Zealand/Aotearoa, to have the opportunity to invest in their own "NZ regional wall display panel" as shareholders in the Showcase company. The panels will feature a floor to ceiling mural with the name of region emblazoned across the top of the panel/mural.
16 "NZ natural product provenance rich" Regional Partners will complete the showcase ownership team that will help put NZ into the "Top-10" of that exclusive, globally relocating millionaires club.
Each of these 16 regions will be invited to "showcase" their regions agribiz based investment opportunities.
Full details will be provided upon request from a regional NZ based commercial entity / licensed realty firm in each of these regions that deals in rural lifestyle, agribiz based assets that would be of interest to (1) UHNW, (2) HNW individuals and families across the US, seeking a safe and secure NZ sanctuary.
The Showcase is a full time working realty office.
BTW, the pic above was taken at the "other office". during one of Linda's prep trips back to FL. i.e. a very nice cafe close to the Showcase office, Of course, being Florida, the Sunshine State, casual "uniforms" are in!
Pictured above is Linda Brink, (daughter of the realty firms founder), who is returning to the US to assume control of her family's realty interests and direct the Showcase launch with Bob (right) the firm's GM and other agents licensed to operate in the State of FL as agents of the firm.
Our immediate priority is to now:
- Build a NZ regional agribiz / agritech sector investment product portfolio for Showcase window display to the stream of HNWI's that habitually populate the bars, clubs. restaurants, cruise liner terminals, hotels and convention centers in our showcase area.
- Take the most exciting NZ regional agribiz/agritech listings and push them through (a) the nationwide MLS system, (b) US based "sanctuary / survival / doomsday" website operators to put these listings in front of a much wider audience across the entire US.
"Invest in New Zealand" Showcase Management team
Linda Brink - Director
Cheryl Iverson - Display Manager
Bob Kelsey - Operations GM
Having directed the "Yachting fraternity" client base for many years, Linda has the experience to cater directly to this affluent community.
Bob Kelsey - Operations GM
Cheryl Iverson - Display Manager
Bob Kelsey - Operations GM
A Florida State Licensed realty veteran, well versed in the areas population demographic, Bob is the perfect showcase ops GM.
Cheryl Iverson - Display Manager
Cheryl Iverson - Display Manager
Cheryl Iverson - Display Manager
A graduate of the Art Institute of Ft Lauderdale with a keen eye for art and display, Cheryl takes care of investment product presentation.
A Silicon Valley plug 'n play conduit is planned to follow.
When the GFC struck in 2008, I moved to Silicon Valley where I noticed a can do attitude prevailed as some of today's biggest names in tech were then early stage. Cupertino is where I plan a NZ Showcase conduit, targeting the Valley's uber-wealthy to sanctuary-invest in NZ's rural regions. So c'mon join me in the US!
Showcase art project - the "Love Your Art" team of '94 together again!
A friendship dating back to the Mairangi Bay Children's ArtHouse on Auckland's north shore in the 1990's Linda, Cheryl and Shona are joining forces again, (30 plus years on), in the Showcase art work mahi. Pictured above with Shona and Cheryl, is "Big Jim", who in his "younger days" co-founded the largest motorcycle club in NZ. Going onto become a leading figure in supporting the needs of young children, both Pakeha and Maori as Patron and Kaitiaki of the NZ Children's ArtHouses.
A 2013, "New Zealander of the Year" winner, Shona's mural works are well known in NZ and overseas, having built a large network of art-sector associates from her more than 50 years in the field of art. With her large network of professional associates in the US, the tribal theming of the Ft Lauderdale "NZ Investment Showcase" project is assured of strong interest from a big audience in the US.