A Broad Bay group plans to start fundraising to build a $1.4 million shared waterfront facility, Waterfront Inc chairman Richard Good, of Portobello, says.
The first step in the process was to raise about $25,000 for the cost of a resource consent application.
Mr Good did not know exactly what form the fundraising activities would take.
While some in the community were still "wary", the waterfront project had majority support in the area.
He acknowledged some residents were fearful the project meant selling the community hall.
Any decision to sell would be late in the process, when the project was assured.
"[It] would be right at the end of a flow chart ... I think people are fearful that the hall will be sold and they'll be left with a void, and that's not going to happen."
If the project went ahead the hall would be "superfluous".
The hall committee had authority over whether to sell, he said.
Waterfront Inc's parent bodies, the Broad Bay Community Centre, and the Broad Bay Boating Club, propose the facility as a joint venture for both the boating club and the wider community.
The project stalled last September when it failed to gain a sufficient mandate from committee centre members, just over 60% of whom voted to support it, when project backers wanted 70%.
However, in November community centre members voted to go ahead with it.
