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Is the Plaza Hotel Trump's?
Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Group, spent $7.4 million on the Plaza Hotel in 1943, and then spent $6 million to decorate the hotel.
Hilton called the Plaza Hotel the most fashionable and beautiful hotel in America. After buying waldorf, he sold the Plaza Hotel. New york real estate tycoon Donald Trump bought the Plaza Hotel in 1988 for $407.5 million.
Trump sold the Plaza Hotel to Saudi Prince Walid at 1995 for $325 million. In 2004, Plaza Hotel was sold to Israel's Elad Real Estate Company for 675 million dollars again. Elad Company closed the Plaza Hotel on April 30, 2005, preparing for large-scale renovation, and plans to reopen it on June 65438+ 10/day, 2008.
Commemorative activities:
As a landmark of new york, Plaza Hotel is indelible in the memory of many people in new york. Because of this unspeakable nostalgia, at the end of April 2005, Plaza Hotel held a grand auction, and thousands of people lined up outside with umbrellas, hoping to buy a short piece of "history".
Everything at the auction site, from antique chairs, French sofas, carpets, bathrobes, porcelain, wine glasses, bedding, toiletries and even irons, was snapped up.
On March 5, 2006, the items of Plaza Hotel were auctioned again. In order to own a historical relic of new york City, about 400 people went to the auction held by Christie's auction house at Rockefeller Center in Manhattan on June 5438+05 to bid for many items of new york Plaza Hotel, including bar chairs, wine glasses, candlesticks and a small piano.
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