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- BUSINESS, Page 73Business NotesREAL ESTATEA Piece of The Sky
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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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