{"id":5020,"date":"2013-08-05T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2013-08-04T04:35:33","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T08:35:33","slug":"will-there-be-a-room-524-in-sydneys-second-intercontinental-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/2013\/08\/05\/will-there-be-a-room-524-in-sydneys-second-intercontinental-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Will There Be A Room 524 In Sydney&#8217;s Second InterContinental Hotel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pop\/Rock fans will certainly remember the 1997 death of INXS lead-man, Michael Hutchence. \u00a0Hutchence was found hung in his suite, room 524, at the Ritz Carlton Sydney hotel. \u00a0In 2001, the hotel lost the Ritz name and fell into ill-repair. The building was abandoned in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Intercontinental hotel group has purchased the infamous property and will turn it into a 140-room hotel set to open in January 2014. \u00a0The hotel has iconic Sydney Harbor. The hotel will be named\u00a0InterContinental Sydney Double Bay.<\/p>\n<p>One challenge facing the new group &#8211; evicting the current tenants &#8211; squatters have taken over the vacant building.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5022\" style=\"width: 465px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5022\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-5022\" alt=\"220735-ritz-carlton\" src=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/files\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton.jpg\" width=\"455\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton.jpg 650w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton-300x168.jpg 300w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton-605x341.jpg 605w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton-628x353.jpg 628w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton-462x260.jpg 462w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton-296x167.jpg 296w, http:\/\/first2board.com\/verygoodpoints\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/220735-ritz-carlton-213x120.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inside the former Ritz Carlton hotel (Copyright: Australian Broadcast Company)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This month shops and a Russian restaurant will begin operating in the space. \u00a0A group of\u00a0Singaporean businessmen have invested about $20 million in the refurbishment of the hotel and paid\u00a0$58 million for the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop\/Rock fans will certainly remember the 1997 death of INXS lead-man, Michael Hutchence. \u00a0Hutchence was found hung in his suite, room 524, at the Ritz Carlton Sydney hotel. \u00a0In 2001, the hotel lost the Ritz name and fell into ill-repair&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[91,742],"tags":[450,75],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will There Be A Room 524 In Sydney&#039;s Second InterContinental Hotel? 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