question: Raffles Hotel is located at the corner of Canning Highway and Canning Beach Road, in the Perth suburb of Applecross, Western Australia, for over 50 years until which year, it was owned by Australian nightclub owner and property developer Abe Saffron, Abraham Gilbert "Abe" Saffron (6 October 1919 – 15 September 2006) was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century?
answer: 2002
context: Title: Beach Road, Perth
  Passage: Beach Road is a major east-west road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Perth's inner northern beachside suburbs and inland state housing areas with shopping and public transport facilities at Warwick and the Malaga industrial area.  It was mostly built between 1967 and 1974, and is a dual carriageway for most of its length, except for a small western part between Marmion Avenue and the coast, which is a minor residential distributor road and is discontinuous at Marmion Avenue.  Beach Road also serves as a local government boundary.  From Alexander Drive to Wanneroo road beach road is the boundary with the City of Wanneroo on the northern side and the City of Stirling on the southern side.  From Wanneroo Road to the coast Beach Road is the boundary with the City of Joondalup (part of City of Wanneroo until 1998) on the northern side and the City of Stirling on the southern side.
  Title: Abe Saffron
  Passage: Abraham Gilbert "Abe" Saffron (6 October 1919 – 15 September 2006) was an Australian nightclub owner and property developer who was reputed to have been one of the major figures in Australian organised crime in the latter half of the 20th century.
  Title: Canning Bridge
  Passage: Canning Bridge is a traffic bridge which is the most downstream crossing of the Canning River in the city of Perth, Western Australia.  The bridge is a part of Canning Highway, and it connects the suburbs of Como and Applecross.  The Canning River is approximately 100 metres (328 ft) wide at the crossing, the narrowest point of the river along its downstream stretch.  It is located near the Canning Bridge railway station.
  Title: Lenny McPherson
  Passage: Leonard Arthur "Lenny" McPherson (born Balmain, New South Wales 19 May 1921; died Cessnock, New South Wales, 28 August 1996) also Lennie, was one of the most notorious and powerful Australian career criminals of the late 20th century.  McPherson is believed to have controlled most of Sydney's organised crime activity for several decades, alongside his contemporary Abe Saffron (who was dubbed "Mr Sin") and associate George Freeman.
  Title: Raffles Hotel, Perth
  Passage: Raffles Hotel is located at the corner of Canning Highway and Canning Beach Road in the Perth suburb of Applecross, Western Australia.  It is a two-storey hotel designed in the Inter-War Functionalist style and is one of the few examples of a hotel in this style surviving in the Perth metropolitan area.  Earlier named the Canning Bridge Hotel, it has operated continuously as a licensed hotel since at least 1896.  For over 50 years until 2002, it was owned by Australian nightclub owner and property developer Abe Saffron, whose plan to demolish the hotel was successfully opposed by the Art Deco Society of Western Australia in a ten-year campaign.
  Title: Canning Highway
  Passage: Canning Highway is a 17 kilometre arterial road in Perth, Western Australia, linking the inner Perth suburb of Victoria Park in the north-east, to the port city of Fremantle in the south-west.
  Title: Como, Western Australia
  Passage: Como is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.  Its local government area is the City of South Perth.  The suburb has a population of 12,423.  Canning Highway divides the suburb.
  Title: South Perth, Western Australia
  Passage: South Perth is a residential suburb 3 kilometres (2 mi) south of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, which adjoins the southern shore of Perth Water on the Swan River.  The suburb adjoins two major arterial roads—Canning Highway and the Kwinana Freeway—and is within the City of South Perth local government area.
  Title: Applecross, Western Australia
  Passage: Applecross is a riverside suburb of Perth, Western Australia, bounded by Canning Highway and the Swan River.  It is located within the City of Melville.
  Title: Mount Pleasant, Western Australia
  Passage: Mount Pleasant is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the City of Melville on the Canning River.  It is bounded by Canning Highway to the north, the Canning River to the east, Cranford Avenue, Moolyeen Road and Canning Avenue to the south, and Rogerson Road, Coomoora Road, Henley Road and Ardross Street to the west.
citations: Abe Saffron Raffles Hotel, Perth