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<text id=91TT2520>
<title>
Nov. 11, 1991: Business Notes:Real Estate
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Nov. 11, 1991 Somebody's Watching
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 73
Business Notes
REAL ESTATE
A Piece of The Sky
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<p> For 40 years, there was nothing like it in the history of the
world: the Empire State Building. Rising from midtown Manhattan
during the bitter dawn of the Great Depression, its 6,500
windows, 10 million bricks and then record 102 stories became
an instant urban icon. A movie encounter with King Kong in 1933
only added to the building's reputation.
</p>
<p> Although it no longer rules the heavens (Chicago's Sears
Tower, at 1,454 ft., and New York City's own World Trade Center,
1,368 ft., soar higher than the Empire State Building's now
modest 1,250 ft.), the grande dame of skyscrapers is apparently
still fetching enough to win a new suitor. According to the Wall
Street Journal, the landmark's current owner, Prudential
Insurance Co., is selling the legendary edifice for a
comparatively paltry $40 million. The reported buyer: a member
of the Grace family, which founded W.R. Grace & Co.
</p>
<p> While the deal seems a steal by current New York City
prices, the building's unknown new owner must contend with a
pre-existing leasing arrangement that will lock in the rates on
Empire State Building office space for decades to come.
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