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The first two phases of the World Trade Center Downtown Restoration program were 17 years in the making, launched in early 2002, just after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and reaching substantial completion in 2019 under the $20-billion effort to create 10 million sq ft of new facilities.
When planning for the new World Trade Center site began just a few years after the destruction of the original towers, security was front of mind: Bollards were to be placed around the site, and a dedicated, below-grade routing system for commercial vehicles was among the plans.
During a visit to the 76th floor of 3 World Trade Center, project team members showed ENR how there are places for eight corner offices, rather than the usual four per story.
Developers broke ground earlier this month on a $460-million redevelopment of the 33-story New Orleans World Trade Center tower into a Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, bringing to fruition a restoration that has been more than 20 years in the making and mired in setbacks.
The World Trade Center Transportation Hub is part of a 16-acre redevelopment of lower Manhattan after the destruction of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack..
The board of directors for the three-auditorium Ronald O. Perelman Performing Arts Center—the final piece of the puzzle for Lower Manhattan’s 16-acre World Trade Center redevelopment—says construction on the project is expected to begin in 2018 and be completed in 2020.
This letter is in response to an ENR article, headlined “Bird of Pay” (3/14 p. 7), and a New York Times article, “Santiago Calatrava’s Transit Hub Is a Soaring Symbol of a Boondoggle” (3/2).
One World Trade Center’s 408-ft-tall steel spire, which sits atop the skyscraper’s 1,368-ft superstructure, makes the 1,776-ft-tall One WTC the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and the fourth tallest in the world.
A portion of the World Trade Center Transportation Hub’s long-awaited and overdue Oculus atrium opened on March 3, along with a pedestrian tunnel to a new hub entrance at Liberty and Church streets.