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- <text id=91TT0856>
- <title>
- Apr. 22, 1991: Business Notes:Real Estate
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Apr. 22, 1991 Nancy Reagan:Is She THAT Bad?
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 63
- Business Notes
- REAL ESTATE
- Trump Tries Tokyo Prices
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- <p> Nothing unusual about taking a building condo to help pay the
- mortgage. But Donald Trump raised eyebrows last week when he
- announced plans to convert most of New York City's 84-year-old
- Plaza Hotel into condominiums to pay off his $300 million loan
- on the place. He plans to charge an average of $1,600 per sq.
- ft. for the luxury apartments, or about three times the price of
- other prime residential buildings in Manhattan--and most of
- the apartments won't have kitchens.
- </p>
- <p> Taking the landmark condo could bring the financially
- humbled developer $750 million, nearly twice what he paid for
- it three years ago. Trump is characteristically confident about
- the audacious plan, which he has not yet submitted to the
- attorney general's office for approval. "I've already been
- called by so many people looking to buy in," he bragged. "It's
- going to become a great success." Ex-wife Ivana may feel
- considerably less bubbly about the proposed conversion. She
- could lose her job as the hotel's president.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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