Changing rooms: Student towers may pivot into hotels

Monday April 12, 2021

Australia’s biggest provider of student accommodation is moving to offer its rooms to other travellers as a way of coping with business uncertainty as the COVID-19 pandemic continues.

The Scape group has approached Brisbane City Council for permission to open up its student accommodation complexes in South Brisbane and Wolloongabba to interstate visitors to the city.

It has asked the council to remove regulations preventing it from offering rooms to anyone other than students, saying this would allow it to offer alternative accommodation to people who did…

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