Travel Daily | Christchurch Crowne coming down

INTERCONTINENTAL Hotels Grp confirmed yesterday afternoon that one of its three Christchurch based hotels, damaged in the Feb earthquake, will be torn down and not rebuilt” The Crowne Plaza Christchurch suffered significant damage in the quake and engineers informed the building owner, Eureka Funds Management, that demolition was the best assessment, mainly due to increased construction costs “because of new building codes in the city”.

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