The Plaza Hotel actually offers the Home Alone experience for a pretty penny in what is a great example of marketing for the key demo. Kevin McCallister is now in his 40s. We are the generation with deep pockets who would love to see NYC in a limo with a pizza like Kevin.
https://twitter.com/mandarsudame/status/1600306370481631232
Btw I asked around how much this costs and apparently a few years ago, it cost $900. Which the #HomeAlone2 junkie marketing prof in me thought was an opportunity missed cos why not price it $967.43? That's the amount he spends at the Plaza on room service lol. In 1992. 
The Plaza Hotel is a cute part of NYC history but the fact that both Donald Trump AND Subroto Roy Sahara owned it once and Qataris own it now should tell you why it always evokes Norma Desmond in my mind whenever I walk past it.
It's eventually gotta be a museum. Realistically.
It's eventually gotta be a museum. Realistically.
If you've read enough NYC History, you know what's gonna happen to The Plaza hotel. A bunch of rich people will burn through a lot of money for the prestige of owning it (cos it stopped being profitable decades ago). It's historic so they can't touch it. City can't let them.
Eventually the maintenance costs of the historic & gorgeous building and the opportunity costs of putting working capital in running an overpriced premium hotel in Manhattan in Airbnb times will grow so big that no rich person will buy it even as a vanity project.
Then the city or the national parks service will take over the plaza hotel and turn it into a museum. Maybe 20 years or so. Or even sooner.
But no way is anyone ever demolishing the Plaza. And no way can anyone turn a profit from it. You see why I get sunset boulevard vibes?
But no way is anyone ever demolishing the Plaza. And no way can anyone turn a profit from it. You see why I get sunset boulevard vibes?
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