THE man who was until recently a joint venture owner of Spring Street’s controversial Windsor Hotel redevelopment, has purchased a significant Dandenong Ranges property, built by the Australian who made his fortune marketing Aspro to the world.

Sources say property investor Adam Garrison is planning to restore the former Burnham Beeches estate in Sherbrooke, about 40 kilometres east of town, into a luxury resort.

The distinctive three-storey art deco home, on 22.7 hectares with historic landscaped gardens, was built in the 1930s as a private home for wealthy businessman Alfred Nicholas, whose Aspro product was one of the world’s highest selling headache treatment by the 1940s.

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