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At the second attempt, on 5 March 1980, the tower was purchased for 20 million
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company Hertel, who wanted to establish a 3-Star hotel under the name of "Goodnight" for a price of 7.2 million
Deutschmark. This hotel would have had 108 rooms and, as well as, seven floors being used as a home for the elderly and the disabled. For years, however, nothing happened.
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company "Toga Hotels" acquired the building's hotel wing, whose lease to
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purchased the hotel for 12 million
Deutschmark. After seven years of inactivity, the builders now came and completely refit the building, investing 45 million Deutschmark into it. In the year 2002 the hotel was reopened as the
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and the pre-cast concrete parts for the balconies and roofs were manufactured on site in an installation erected for that purpose. After a fourteen-month construction period, on 2 July 1972 the 400-bed
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On 8 May 1996 the hotel wing again went into administration and was again put up for auction. It went for 20.9 million
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welcomed its first guests, the 279 apartments were ready for people to move in, and the restaurant on the 35th floor and the viewing platform on the 34th floor gained much popularity.
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