{"id":59493,"date":"2020-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt"},"modified":"2024-02-12T05:58:15","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T05:58:15","slug":"24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt"},"content":{"rendered":"From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut&#8217;s St. Georges Hotel. <br \/>  <br \/>  After 24 long years of vicious real estate battles and a legal deadlock with Solidere, the St. Georges hotel has finally been granted a license to renovate from Beirut&#8217;s Municipality.  <br \/>  <br \/>  <iframe title=\"Embedded Instagram Post\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"532\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BrFzb0vgA3X\/embed\/\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"background: white; max-width: 540px; width: calc(100% - 2px); border-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(219, 219, 219); box-shadow: none; display: block; margin: 12px 0px 12px !important; min-width: 326px; padding: 0px;\"><\/iframe> <br \/>  The iconic hotel was originally destroyed, looted, and occupied during the Lebanese civil war, then destroyed once again by the blast that killed late Prime Minister Rafic Hariri in 2005. <br \/>  <br \/>  Ever since, the hotel had been fighting for reconstruction rights, but to no avail. <br \/>  <br \/>  St. Georges was built in the late 1920s, and has hosted Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, as well as royalty such as the Shah of Iran, and Egyptian icon Oum Kalthoum! <br \/>  <br \/>  We are looking forward to see what happens next for this Beirut landmark. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut&#8217;s St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":437211,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_preview_accessed":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"media-embed-type":[],"class_list":["post-59493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"authorship":[110],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut&#039;s St.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut&#039;s St.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Beirut.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-19T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-12T05:58:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59493-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1152\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@beirutcityguide\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-19T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-12T05:58:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":158,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/59493-1.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Blog\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/\",\"name\":\"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/59493-1.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-19T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-12T05:58:15+00:00\",\"description\":\"From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut's St.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/59493-1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/59493-1.png\",\"width\":1920,\"height\":1152},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/en\\\/59493\\\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\",\"name\":\"Beirut.com\",\"description\":\"Beirut.com is your insider guide to Lebanon, with the best in food, culture, neighborhoods, and everything new. Discover where to go and fall in love with our country.\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Beirut.com, SA\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2023\\\/04\\\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg\",\"width\":2560,\"height\":1044,\"caption\":\"Beirut.com, SA\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.beirut.com\\\/ar\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.facebook.com\\\/beirutcityguide\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/beirutcityguide\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt","description":"From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut's St.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt","og_description":"From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut's St.","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/","og_site_name":"Beirut.com","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide","article_published_time":"2020-02-19T00:00:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2024-02-12T05:58:15+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1920,"height":1152,"url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59493-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@beirutcityguide","twitter_site":"@beirutcityguide","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt","datePublished":"2020-02-19T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-12T05:58:15+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/"},"wordCount":158,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59493-1.png","articleSection":["Blog"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/","name":"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59493-1.png","datePublished":"2020-02-19T00:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2024-02-12T05:58:15+00:00","description":"From a touristic landmark bursting with life to a deserted building that has been bare and abandoned for years, such is the story of Beirut's St.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59493-1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/59493-1.png","width":1920,"height":1152},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/59493\/24-years-later-st-georges-hotel-gets-license-to-be-rebuilt\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"24 Years Later, St. Georges Hotel Gets License To Be Rebuilt"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/","name":"Beirut.com","description":"Beirut.com is your insider guide to Lebanon, with the best in food, culture, neighborhoods, and everything new. Discover where to go and fall in love with our country.","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#organization","name":"Beirut.com, SA","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Beirut.com-Logo-scaled.jpg","width":2560,"height":1044,"caption":"Beirut.com, SA"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/ar\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beirutcityguide","https:\/\/x.com\/beirutcityguide"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709457,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59493\/revisions\/709457"}],"wp:authorship":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59493"},{"taxonomy":"media-embed-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-embed-type?post=59493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}