The Kortz Center Heist Is Live, and the Art Studio Costs More Than We Predicted

The Kortz Center Heist is live in Grand Theft Auto Online, but the Art Studio costs $4.7M and the total setup will run you about $16M with discount...

The Kortz Center Heist is live in Grand Theft Auto Online, but the Art Studio costs $4.7M and the total setup will run you about $16M with discounts from the Mansion and GTA+. It is here. Title Update 1.73 for Grand Theft Auto Online has landed, the Kortz Center Heist is live across all platforms, and after thirteen years of driving past that art gallery in Pacific Bluffs, you can finally rob it.

In our prep guide, we estimated the Art Studio would land somewhere between $2M and $3M, and we specifically said anyone predicting $4M or higher was probably overshooting. We were wrong. The Art Studio $4,700,000.

If you budgeted around our number, you are short. We're truly sorry about that, so feel free to let us know how you feel in the comments section (and inadvertently chance yourself a free Grand Theft Auto VI copy). What the Kortz Center Heist Actually Costs to Host | Requirement | Cost | |---|---| A Mansion (from Prix Luxury Real Estate) | From $11,500,000 | Art Studio expansion | $4,700,000 | Minimum total, if you own nothing | Around $16,200,000 | Minimum total, if you already own a Mansion | $4,700,000 |

Every purchase required to host the Kortz Center Heist, and what it costs at full price. Sixteen million dollars to run a heist, if you are starting from scratch. That is a serious number.

First though, the good news. If you owned a Mansion and logged in during the prep window, you have a million off. If you are also a GTA+ member, that is another million on top.

Two million dollars saved for logging into a game you were going to log into anyway, which is exactly why we spent the last few weeks telling everyone to go claim those rewards. Now, to actually start the thing, buy a Mansion if you do not have one. Three are available through Prix Luxury Real Estate in your in-game phone browser, and if you are picking purely on practicality, the Richman Villa in Vinewood Hills sits closest to the Kortz Center.

Then buy the Art Studio. It is in the Prix Luxury Real Estate site, under your property, through renovate, in additional rooms. Then go to your Mansion and head to the Art Studio, which is down in the basement next to the vault and marked with an H on the map.

Finally, make sure that you register yourself as a Boss for the planning board to work. To do that, open the interaction menu inside your Mansion, choose Register as Boss, pick either SecuroServ CEO or Motorcycle Club President, and start the organization. GTA 6 giveaway Win a full copy of GTA 6 Ultimate Edition.

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How to Pay Less for the Art Studio | Your Situation | Art Studio Price | |---|---| No discounts | $4,700,000 | Fine Art Collector Elitist tier (Mansion owner who logged in before July 13) | $3,700,000 | Elitist tier plus GTA+ membership | $2,700,000 | The two discounts available on the $4,700,000 Art Studio, and how they stack. If you grind GTA Online constantly and already own a Mansion, this is straightforward. $4.7 million for a fresh, well-designed, repeatable heist is fine, and you will make it back.

If you already grabbed the Elitist and GTA+ discounts, you are paying $2.7M, which is genuinely cheap for what looks like the most elaborate heist Rockstar has built since Cayo Perico. But if you are a casual player without a Mansion, sitting there wondering whether to spend $16.2M on this, well, that's completely up to you. There's no rush anyway.

The heist is repeatable, and it isn't a seasonal event. It's not going anywhere. The one thing going somewhere is Grand Theft Auto 6 in November, and a chunk of the people you would run this with are going to vanish from Los Santos and relocate to Leonida the second it launches.

With that said, from everything we have seen, it looks like the most thoughtfully built heist in years, and finally opening up a landmark that has sat there uselessly since 2013 is a genuinely lovely way for the game to bow out.