{"id":6304,"date":"2015-02-03T07:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T14:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6304"},"modified":"2015-02-24T07:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T14:23:09","slug":"madame-tussauds-up-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/03\/madame-tussauds-up-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Madame Tussaud&#8217;s Up For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1af7151e-abb0-11e4-b05a-00144feab7de.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Financial Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndicationHeadline\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<h1>London site of Madame Tussauds up for sale<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline \" style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Claer Barrett, Senior Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"fullstoryImage fullstoryImageHybrid article\"><span class=\"story-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/im.ft-static.com\/content\/images\/1f72c56b-62f3-45fb-87ba-e7a8a8345001.img\" alt=\"Madame Tussauds Merlin exterior building\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>The landlord of Madame Tussauds hopes to raise more than \u00a3300m by selling the building that has housed the waxworks since 1884, in a further sign of London\u2019s booming commercial property market.<\/p>\n<p>Property entrepreneur Nick Leslau has instructed agent CBRE to market the freehold of the central London premises in Marylebone and is seeking offers in excess of \u00a3300m, according to people familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ranked as one of London\u2019s top 10 tourist attractions by visitor numbers, Merlin has tapped the rise of \u201cselfie culture\u201d, removing barriers around celebrity waxworks to allow easier access. The company runs 20 Tussauds attractions including in Shanghai, Beijing and Singapore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/0\/1af7151e-abb0-11e4-b05a-00144feab7de.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at FT.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Financial Times London site of Madame Tussauds up for sale Claer Barrett, Senior Reporter The landlord of Madame Tussauds hopes to raise more than \u00a3300m by selling the building that has housed the waxworks since 1884, in a further sign of London\u2019s booming commercial property market. Property entrepreneur Nick Leslau has instructed agent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}