BRIGHTON’S MARINE GOES UNDER
The popular Marine Hotel in south Melbourne has suddenly closed, blaming a cocktail of council headaches, rising costs and NIMBYs. The robust Georgian-style pub has operated since 1856. In 2013 sale of the freehold fetched $13 million, sold at auction to a “well-known Melbourne hotelier” that operates one pub and leases out others, which came […]