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With his brother Preston Robert Tisch, 34, Larry Tisch has run up a $65 million fortune in real estate, mostly by building, leasing and selling hotels from Florida to New York. Now, as chairman of Loew's Theaters Inc. (no theaters), he is moving the sluggish old theater chain into new real estate ventures-beginning with some changes in the Manhattan skyline...
Construction is under way on Manhattan's East Side (at 51st Street and Lexington Avenue) for a new Loew's-owned, 800-room luxury hotel - the first hotel to be built in Manhattan in 30 years. Ground was broken this week on Manhattan's West Side (Seventh Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets) for a new Loew's hotel, to be called the Americana of New York. It will be the world's tallest hotel (50 stories) and one of its largest (2,000 rooms) and most luxurious, with restaurants and banquet halls that...
...With a Loew's kitty of $20 million, Larry Tisch is searching for new acquisitions that may take the theater firm into real estate, manufacturing or radio and TV as well as hotels. Tisch is demolishing several theaters in order to lease the land or put up new buildings. Yet he does not intend to take Loew's out of theaters, is looking for new sites to lease on the grounds that TV's "deteriorating quality" will drive more and more people to the movies...
...that are costing $20,000 a room to build. He replies that the skeptics are still thinking in terms of the '30s, points out that he has already booked 75 conventions into the unbuilt Americana. He has no intention of running profitless operations. In only a year as Loew's chief stockholder (he served as chairman of the executive committee before becoming company chairman and chief executive last month), he has cut costs and improved business so much that the firm's earnings will be up 33% this year over last, to about $1 a share...
WORLD'S TALLEST HOTEL, 50 stories high, will be built in midtown Manhattan by Loew's Theaters, Inc. To be named the Americana West, new hotel will open in 1962 with 2,000 luxury rooms, a 30,000-sq.-ft. exhibition hall. It will cost $45 million, join Loew's Americana East, for which ground has been broken across town...