The $85 million tourism machine called the Empire State Building
Photo Caption: Empire State Building by sunset. Rafat Ali
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ESB is facing increasing competition from the observatory at Rockefeller Center and an observatory being built at One World Trade Center, but its position as the preeminent New York City icon remains.
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Last week the Securities and Exchange Commission gave Empire State Building Associates, the company that controls the iconic Empire State Building in New York, the go ahead to proceed with its posible IPO and raise as much as $1 billion. The updated S-4 filing has some fascinating numbers on how big a tourism behemoth that the observatory on top of ESB is. And we've excerpted some of the numbers below:
The Empire State Building
