At a Queenstown Business Chamber of Commerce season update on Thursday night, Mr Anderson said the expansion into the Doolans would increase the ski area from 385 hectares to more than 900ha.
An economic impact study, carried out by Arrowtown-based regional economist Benje Patterson, showed that would lift The Remarkables impact from $150million per annum to $400m per annum on completion.
"That supports up to 6000 jobs in this community, direct and indirect, so that’s quite a massive project."
NZSki is also part of the Coronet Village consortium, which includes philanthropist and businessman Rod Drury and landowner Bernard Cleary.
While the overall proposal included up to 780 homes, a commercial centre, private schools, and a mountain biking hub, Mr Anderson said NZSki’s interest was a proposed new gondola, which would link the bottom of the valley to Coronet Peak’s base building, and the ecological work which would be carried out as a result.
"There is potential for us to look at a mountain-top restaurant in the future, but the immediate priority for us would be to get that gondola, and the mountain biking hub at the bottom.
"I’m really excited about it. I think it would be quite magnificent."
He said there needed to be "lots of conversations", which had started, however, a lot of the detailed planning for both proposals was still to be done — and the company did not yet know what the process under the new Fast-track Approvals Bill.
Regarding The Remarkables’ proposed expansion, Mr Anderson said the company was still working out access.
A tunnel was one option, while lifts were another.
Work was continuing on what would be the better option for customers and the environment, and what was "the most financially sustainable option for us".
Mr Anderson said car parking at The Remarkables was another aspect — while another level on carpark one, was being included in the fast-track application, "there [are] only so many vehicles that an 8m-wide road can cope with".
"It is a really difficult issue for us to deal with."
He noted NZSki also owned the bottom 20ha of the road, where there was potential for more carparks, and using shuttles to transport people to the skifield, but said the "obvious option" was Remarkables Park Ltd’s proposed gondola.
That company had talked about it linking to Remarkables Park, at Frankton, however Mr Anderson said for NZSki, it could go from the bottom of Rastus Burn.
There were also investigations looking at roading at the bottom of the Remarkables, including a paper road.
"Flat land is at a premium ... the ski area’s kind of a bowl that funnels everything, ... there’s a lot going on already in that space, so watch this space.
