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“They couldn’t WAIT to take that sign down.” Waldorf Astoria hotel coming


1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Ed. Note: You can read an awesome history of the Old Post Office Building here.

Thanks to Martin and Mark for sending. Mark writes: “The Waldorf Astoria team rented multiple lifts to expedite removal of the Trump Hotel branding.”


photo by Mark Lyon

The Washington Post reported the building sold for $375 million:

“Miami-based CGI Merchant is partnering with Hilton to turn the Pennsylvania Avenue property into a Waldorf Astoria hotel, ending a more than five-year run in which the hotel became a power center in Trump’s Washington and a symbol of how he mixed business and politics like no other president in history.”