Promote Alexandra secretary Alice Stewart will today meet Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery director Brian Patrick to discuss the feasibility of putting the sculpture on top of the museum building on Centennial Ave.
Mrs Stewart said the alternative - to rival Cromwell's fruit, Gore's trout, and Ohakune's carrot - was to have a free-standing sculpture at the entrance to Pioneer Park, near Central Stories.
The free-standing sculpture would feature a 6m upright cherry blossom branch with three flowers and a small bud on the top, and cost more than $6000.
Corrugated Creations owners Steven and Sheryn Clothier, of Tirau, estimated a sculpture comprising a cluster of three corrugated iron blossoms atop Central Stories would cost more than $4000.
Freight and installation would add at least another $4000 to the total.
The blossom flowers in each sculpture would be about 1.5m in diameter and the works would have a lifespan of about 30 years.
Last month, Promote Alexandra applied to the Vincent Community Board for $13,500 of promotional funding to pay for the sculpture project.
Community board members resolved to table the funding application, along with three others from Promote Alexandra totalling $62,000, until further information was available.
Mrs Stewart said the group would again approach the board at its next meeting, during which it would have more detailed information about the project costs, including the quotes from Corrugated Creations.
When contacted yesterday, Mrs Clothier said the image provided to Promote Alexandra of a sculpture atop Central Stories was not an exact simulation.
Red poppy flowers atop a building in Tirau had been made pink and superimposed on to a photograph of Central Stories to simulate what the blossoms would look like.
