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Abandoned skyscraper hotel in the Central Business District of Johannesburg, South Africa
Johannesburg Sun Hotel is the blue glass complex in the middle. Shorter tower in front is the 1970 wing, taller tower behind it is the 1985 wing.
The
Johannesburg Sun Hotel
is an abandoned twin-tower
skyscraper
hotel in the
Central Business District
of
Johannesburg
,
South Africa
.
History
[
edit
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The smaller 22-storey rear tower was built in 1970 as
The Tollman Towers
hotel, owned by the prominent hotelier Stanley Tollman.
The property was purchased by
Sol Kerzner
's
Southern Sun Hotels
in the early 1980s and totally rebuilt at a cost of R100 million, with the addition of the 40-storey main tower, linked to the older building by a four-story podium with a
pool
deck and a
running track
. The complex re-opened in 1985 as the 672-room
Johannesburg Sun and Towers
.
[1]
As the neighbourhood decayed, the luxury hotel was converted to a
Holiday Inn Garden Court
, with only 270 rooms remaining in use, but the lack of demand for hotels in the CBD eventually caused the hotel to close completely, in September 1998. It reopened very briefly for the
Earth Summit 2002
on sustainable development as the
KwaDukuza eGoli Hotel
, a name meaning
Gathering Place in the City of Gold
.
[2]
The hotel was owned by Mark Whitehead of Whitehead Enterprises. It hosted 2,000 police officers, but their stay was marred by a murder in the hotel and severe problems with the physical systems of the building.
[3]
The hotel soon went out of business again. The building is currently
[
when?
]
"mothballed."
References
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26°12′07″S
28°02′48″E
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