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Even more ostentatious is Mohammad's residential compound, now under construction on a chunk of Miami property he bought for $4 million. A contractor on the unfinished Xanadu is suing the sheik for $275,000, and one of the sheik's builders says it will be "the most expensive piece of crap ever put on this earth." It is to include a bowling alley, an aviary, computer-controlled fountains, five waterfalls, two swimming pools, moving sidewalks, a bomb shelter and a mosque...
...there is the Cat-A-Lac rolling bed that sells for $34 and a kitty rocking horse to calm the freaked-out feline ($49). New York's Felines of Distinction expects to sell more than 2,000 scratching posts this year; among them is a $179 carpeted feline Xanadu called the Kitty Playground. In Los Angeles, home of the stars and the stars' excesses, one store offers the ultimate in laid-back purraphernalia: a kitty water bed at $35.99. A shop owner in Chicago estimates that it is not uncommon for customers to spend $400 to equip their...
Your article "For $11 Mil, Xanadu with a Rolls" [July 21] may stir the envy of some of your readers. But it will also stimulate many more of them to ask: Is this kind of luxury desirable in a nation that cannot afford to provide Social Security, food stamps, decent housing and education for millions of its people who are in need...
...Samuel Taylor Coleridge were a contemporary real estate developer, he would not have decreed a stately pleasure dome in Xanadu but on a milelong strip of Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard. That is where the smart money and the most luxurious dreams currently reside. When construction is finished within two years, 21 high-rise condominium towers will dominate the skyline west of Beverly Hills. They will outprice any concentration of privately owned apartments in the world, including Paris' fashionable Avenue Foch and the moneyed battlements of Manhattan's Park and Fifth Avenues...
...ultimate Xanadu may well be the Trump Tower, now abuilding on Fifth Avenue in midtown Manhattan. The top 40 floors of the 68-story building will be given over to condos, some of which will come with private swimming pools. The triplex penthouse apartment will be priced at $24 million. "They're in demand," says Developer Donald Trump. A slight understatement. The 263 apartments in Trump Tower will not be completed until January 1983, but there are already 17,000 applicants from all over the world...