CH Recently Purchased the Elgin Hotel and the Land on Which

CH recently purchased the Elgin Hotel and the land on which it is located. The plans are to demolish the Elgin and to build a new luxury hotel on the site. CH should account for the total purchase cost of the Elgin as follows:

A) Capitalize it as part of the cost of the new hotel.
B) Depreciate it over the period from the acquisition until the Elgin is torn down.
C) Record it as an extraordinary loss in the year the Elgin is demolished.
D) Capitalize it as part of the cost of the land.

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