Joseph Chetrit $190M acquisition is not very clean. After four long months of speculations, it has been announced that Chetrit paid $190M for Hotel Carter better known as the dirtiest hotel in America. After signing the $190M check for the establishment, Joseph Chetrit, a wealthy Jewish developer is expected to spend an additional $125M to renovate the neglected piece of real state.
The American artist Edward Hopper was known for interest in hotels, motels, tourist homes, and the wide scope of hospitality services. From 1920 through 1925 he worked as a commercial illustrator for Hotel Management and Tavern Topics from the Great Depression through the Cold War. He augmented his knowledge of hospitality services as a frequent guest in several lodgings on the long-distance automobile trips he took with his wife, the artist Josephine Hopper. Beginning in the mid-1920s and through the early 1960s, Hopper explored hospitality services subjects in paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints. Sometimes he titled these works as “hotel” or “motel,” but just as often he did not. More than half are composites of sites, with no small amount of invention and artistic license.