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A prefabricated six-storey hotel, destined to house miners, is sitting in 126 boxes stranded on the Melbourne city docks.
The hotel was to have been built at Port Hedland in Western Australia, where BHP planned to use it as housing for its $21 billion harbour expansion but the world’s biggest mining company scrapped the plan and the hotel developer Village Accommodation went into receivership.
The original building contractor for the hotel, Hickory Group, is trying to salvage the project. Michael Argyrou, managing director of the Melbourne-based company, said, “The parties were ‘serious’ and Hickory is hoping to complete a deal within the next few months.”
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