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The Pierre (Explored)

Having cost $15 million to build, it opened in 1930, not a particularly choice time to be opening a business. It went bankrupt in 1932 and was bought by J. Paul Getty for $2.5 million. Now THAT'S a crash.

 

It's a lovely place.

 

*** Update Sept 2017 ***

A triplex penthouse apartment in The Pierre is reported to have sold for $44 million, approximately 18 times what Mr Getty paid for the whole thing in 1932. Now THAT's inflation. (Though the price is actually a discount - in the original 2009 offering that eventually resulted in this sale, the apartment was listed at $125 million.)

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Uploaded on November 11, 2014
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