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=== Metropole Marketing === In 2013, a German company, Metropole Marketing, bought the rights to refurbish Prora and market the units as summer homes.<ref name="weller"/> By that year, refurbished apartments in the so-called Colossus were on sale for as much as β¬700,000 each.<ref name="businessweek" /> The completion date was estimated as 2016. In 2016, the first of the new apartments opened in Block 1.<ref name="weller">{{cite news|last1=Weller|first1=Chris|title=Hitler's 3-mile-long abandoned Nazi resort is transforming into a luxury getaway|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/adolf-hitler-nazi-resort-prora-2017-7/#while-the-nazi-police-state-was-in-development-the-overarching-german-vision-was-a-hopeful-one-moorhouse-tells-business-insider-and-this-is-where-something-like-prora-comes-in-2|accessdate=10 July 2017|work=[[Business Insider]]|date=10 July 2017}}</ref> The Prora Solitaire hotel in Block 2 opened for the summer of 2016, and some reconstructed flats were for sale in that Block by mid 2017. At that time, four of the buildings were in the process of redevelopment, a fifth was used as a youth hostel while the remaining three remained in ruins.<ref name="businessweek" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/17/a-nazi-era-resort-town-redeveloped-and-open-for-business.html|title=This Nazi era resort town has been redeveloped into luxury hotels and apartments|first=Getty|last=Images|website=[[CNBC]] |date=17 June 2017|publisher=|accessdate=22 June 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/germany/articles/nazi-relic-set-to-become-luxury-beach-resort/|title=Failed Nazi holiday resort set for luxury makeover|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=September 2016|publisher=|accessdate=22 June 2018|last1=Morris|first1=Hugh}}</ref> A November 2017 update indicated that most of the units (flats) in Block 1 had been sold, having been marketed as summer homes for those who live in Hamburg and Berlin.<ref name=hatherly /> Many were listed by owners as short term rentals.
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