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Art collector lists gallery-like home near Aspen for $17M, but most of the art must go

Posted: 27 Jul 2019 09:00 AM PDT

Avid art collector Nancy Magoon listed her three-story house near scenic Aspen, Colorado, for $16.9 million — sculpture garden not included. Much of her art, from prehistoric pottery to postmodern installations, may be destined for museums or new owners. But the view of the Elk Mountains from her Aspen-area home is “my best art,” Magoon, 78, told the Wall Street Journal. The bulk of the art will be sold or given away as donations, she […]

Pep pill needed: As many as 700 more GNC vitamin stores will disappear later this year

Posted: 27 Jul 2019 07:00 AM PDT

GNC plans to close as many as 700 more of its vitamin stores in the second half of the year. The struggling Pittsburgh-based retailer – which already closed 200 stores in the first half of the year – confirmed Monday that its store closures in 2019 will total as many as 900, Bisnow reported. “The negative trends in traffic that we’ve seen in mall stores over the past several years accelerated during the past few […]

This week in celeb real estate: Sugar Ray Leonard looks for knockout buyer, Ellen DeGeneres flips another home…and more

Posted: 27 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT

The week in celebrity real estate wouldn’t be complete until Ellen DeGeneres got into the action. This week, the talk show host and real serious estate investor sold one of her many homes, nabbing a tidy profit just weeks after listing it. There was also a new record set in Thousand Oaks, as well as a massive $50 million listing in the Palisades from boxing legend Sugar Ray Leonard. He is looking for a knockout […]