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"Cool Hotel Chaos" (Australia) 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Gatwick Hotel's owners, twin sisters Rose Banks and Yvette Kelly, have sheltered for 20 years those who had nowhere to go: penniless people, drug addicts, prostitutes, ex-convicts. The Gatwick has been a gateway for many, and a house for decades for others. In the fast-gentrifying neighborhood of Saint-Kilda (Melbourne), the building became spoilsport. Its notorious reputation precipitated its fall. The sisters felt forced to sell the property. Channel 9 bought the building for its reality show The Block. The 1930s hotel had been split into luxurious apartments. story

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