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Fashionable facelift for Grand Mercure
Accor Vacation Club has completed a multi-million dollar makeover of the 90-year-old Grand Mercure Melbourne.
The project is the most ambitious in the history of Accor Vacation Club, which has spent $4.3 million to bring the all-suite property back to its best.
The building, located at 321 Flinders Lane, was built in 1921 on the former Dr. Jaeger’s Sanitary Woollen System Co. Ltd site, the company later evolving in to the internationally renowned Jaeger fashion House.
Penny Del Castillo, from In Design International, drew inspiration from those early “fashion house†days for the property’s internal redesign.
Craig Wood, CEO of Accor Vacation Club, said that when the fashion designers occupied the building in 1923 they could lease an entire floor of the building for only £1,900 per annum.
“Fortunately for us, times and room rates have changed,†he said.
Standard suite sizes vary from 46sqm to 64sqm and include large screen LCD TVs in the lounge and bedroom, media hub connectivity and iPod docking station.
The Signature Suites provide all standard suite features with the addition of a cocktail bar with glass fronted wine fridge, 55†LED TV, separate office area, large bathroom with free standing bath tub and the ability to interconnect to a second bedroom.
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