It is currently undergoing a $50 million refurb and will re-open late this year as Melbourne's first Intercontinental Hotel.
Not quite true! The old Southern Cross Hotel was an Intercontinental Hotel when they were owned by Pan Am Airlines.
A couple of references from the Web.
The following are the various Inter-Continental Hotel properties Mr. Prince was directly involved with from the Architectural Design and/or Interior Design from the beginning of construction to the day the Hotel opened:
Phoenicia Inter-Continental, Beirut, Lebanon(1961)
Ducor Inter-Continental, Monrovia, Liberia(1962)
Hotel Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia(1962)
Southern Cross Inter-Continental, Melbourne, Australia(1962)
Director of Sales & Marketing
Southern Cross Hotel, Melbourne, Australia
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Hospitality industry)
1985 — 2000 (15 years)
I was so proud of the Southern Cross, Australia's largest five star hotel & convention centre. Unbelievable staff and so much history in this hotel, built by the InterContinental Group in 1962. The hotel was torn down in 2001 and with the demolition went a large portion of Australia's hotel industry.