History of the Empire State Building: A Financial Flop for Nearly 20 Years
[{"id": "dit3337", "text": "good grief, A) it's expensive to go to the top of the ESB and a ton of people do it annually, probably 2 million people looking at the online prices. ", "replies": [{"id": "diu6xvn", "text": "This is talking about when it first opened in the late 1920's not recently. It opened right before the stock market collapsed and the great depression started, so it took 20 years to recoup the development costs. Obviously it is profitable in modern times.", "replies": [{"id": "diubl0e", "text": "Hi Thomase7, \n\nThat is correct. Thanks for responding to Zverkalt. In one of the later paragraphs we do talk about the Empire State Buildings modern revenue, where it generated $111 million from its Observation Decks and $104 million from its office space. ", "replies": [{"id": "diudnin", "text": "which, if you go to the ESB website &amp; look at the cost to go to observation decks, I'm guestimating about 2 million visitors per year or $55 a pop. \n", "replies": [], "depth": 4}], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]