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Hobart plans new hotel and morgue for the living

Tasmania is to get two more hotels, one promises to be a dead-set success.

A well-known Tasmanian entrepreneur plans to turn a former morgue into a unique hotel while another is looking at a brand new hotel as tall as and to “bookend” Wrest Point Casino.

Morgue transformer Hayden Pearce told ABC news, “I don’t believe there is another morgue in the world to be offered as accommodation.”

Mr Pearce said the hotel, in Willow Court on the site of an old mental asylum, will keep the terrazzo stone slabs and wooden head rests used by the deceased but will feature bunk beds that pull out from the fridge.

Meanwhile, David Walsh said plans for a 72-room, highrise hotel in Berriedale will go ahead. The hotel would be on the site of Hobart’s Museum of Old and New Art that Mr Walsh established near the old ferry landing at Mona and will cost about $20 million.

The Tourism Industry Council’s Luke Martin said MONA had proved a massive drawcard for tourists and a new hotel would only add to that.

“Hopefully this means that they now have the confidence and the certainty to proceed and we have a bigger and better MONA that continues to evolve,” Mr Martin said.

Mr Walsh said he was unsure of the community’s response. “There’ll be some protesters but some people object if you take your shoes off.” So he has an alternative plan for a four storey hotel on the waterfront with a tunnel to the museum.

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