Tainui representatives are taking a proposal to build a 180 room four and a half star hotel in Durham Street to the Tainui board next week.

Tauranga chief executive officer Garry Poole told a council committee meeting today he expects to receive feedback from the Tainui board towards the end of next week.

Tainui are looking to take the city hotel proposal to the board.

The subject was raised at the City Council/Tangata Whenua Committee's meeting on the Waikari Marae in Matapihi.

The hotel development on the Durham Street parking building opposite Baycourt has been on the backburner since the last attempt to snag a developer for the $38million project fell over last August.

The intention is to build a minimum four-star hotel and conference development on a vacant central city property at 21-41 Durham Street.

The building is known as the TV3 carpark and was originally built in the late 1980s to house TV3's regional programmes, but was never completed past the ground floor parking.

In 2008 the Tauranga City Council planned to build a five-level car parking building on the TV3 site in conjunction with a new Novotel hotel.

At the time Hamilton-based Tainui pulled the pin on the $38million hotel project, saying it was not proceeding with plans to build a 146-room hotel and 14 luxury apartments in Durham Street because of the decline in the economy.

In 2009 the site was returned to the city council's future parking building holding pattern.