The building will contain lofts with concrete floors and high ceilings for those who don't want to be downtown but still desire that lifestyle, as well as other more traditional penthouses and residences.
He described the buyer as a "very nice family" who plans to use the penthouse as a residence, and as "someone that people would recognize".
When the makers of the 1998 movie "Meet Joe Black" wanted to convey the idea that the Anthony Hopkins character was a man with the world at his feet, they cast the Pierre penthouse as his residence, filming the exterior from a helicopter and shooting the views from its windows.
I bought a one-sixth share of a penthouse unit at the Residences at the Chateaux, in Silver Lake Village at the Deer Valley Resort.
Aspen Highlands opens its new Ritz-Carlton fractional ownership residences and penthouses in February.
There will be 292 hotel rooms and 22 one- to four-bedroom residences, including penthouses, in the 28-story tower.
Rare is the trophy penthouse or full-floor residence that isn't the result of creative combinations of several apartments to create a suitable mansion in the sky.
Billionaires from all over the world can afford not only the price of Manhattan's top penthouses and full-floor residences, but also to wait, since they are never scrambling for a place to call home.
The hotel will be in a restored, Miami Modern-style building that was once the Carillon Hotel, and most of the one-to-five-bedroom residences, including penthouses, will have balconies; a rental program will be available.
Properties like the duplex penthouses at Ian Schrager's Residences at the Miami Beach Edition, which sold as a package for $34 million (or $3,800 a square foot, a new Miami Beach record), or the penthouse at 432 Park Avenue, which the developer Harry Macklowe said is under contract for $95 million, continue to prove the point.
