A long-delayed plan for a luxury hotel on Melbourne’s Carlton Gardens appears to be changing. Multiple reports say the former Shangri-La site, a large development intended to include about 500 rooms and a grand ballroom, is now sitting unused and has fallen into disuse. The project’s original hotel concept is reported to be unlikely to proceed as planned, with the building instead expected to be converted into apartments. All accounts describe the property as dusty and abandoned, indicating the development has not progressed to its intended operational stage. The articles frame the situation as a shift away from a hotel outcome, while still treating the overall building as the subject of redevelopment. However, the reports focus more on the reported change in end use—toward residential apartments—than on the specific reasons for the delay or the formal approvals and timelines for the new plan. Overall, the outlets agree on the location and the scale of the original hotel proposal, and on the reported move toward residential conversion.