NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,776' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS

[sask1982]

Originally Posted by Crawford

No, there will be no parking. Relatively few Manhattan office towers have parking.

What did the original WTC have for parking? Did it not?

[A-K O.G.]

Twin Towers had a relatively strong parking garage..

[Zerton]

Originally Posted by sask1982

What did the original WTC have for parking? Did it not?

remember what happened in 1993?

[Dac150]

Are you guys sure? I'm pretty sure I heard that there will be a garage. I know there will be one for commuter and tour buses.

[jjk1103]

Originally Posted by talltowers08

Basement levels 1-6 - Garage/Retail/Transportation
Ground floor - Main lobby
1st-45th floors (base) - Podium (not occupied on the base except for lobby)[citation needed]
46th-63rd floors - offices[citation needed]
64th floor - sky lobby
65th-84th floors - offices[citation needed]
85th-90th floors - transmission equipment[citation needed]
91st-100th floors - Mechanical
100th-101st floors - Restaurant
102nd floor - observation deck
103rd-108th floors - mechanical (unoccupied)
Top of the building - observation deck two (proposed)

Including basement floors, 1 World Trade Center will have a total of 114 floors.

....I guess I don't follow this tower much but ......the 1st 45 floors (base) are unoccupied ??? ..or did I read this wrong ?

[Lecom]

Originally Posted by Dac150

Are you guys sure? I'm pretty sure I heard that there will be a garage. I know there will be one for commuter and tour buses.

It will be in the underground levels of the entire WTC complex without any particular relation to the towers, and there will be no above ground parking. But you're right, the underground parking will accomodate buses.

[talltowers08]

Originally Posted by jjk1103

....I guess I don't follow this tower much but ......the 1st 45 floors (base) are unoccupied ??? ..or did I read this wrong ?

No you didnt read it wrong i got this information from typing in freedom tower into google and u wikipedia it

[eduardo88]

Originally Posted by talltowers08

No you didnt read it wrong i got this information from typing in freedom tower into google and u wikipedia it

why is there going to be nothing in the first 45 floors? seems like an incredible waste of space, it can't all be mechanical rooms, will they just sit empty?

[A-K O.G.]

Come on lets use our heads, you believe nearly half this tower will be vacant...
1st-45th floors (base) - Podium (not occupied on the base except for lobby)[citation needed].. ANYONE can add information to wikipedia...

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7788, THIS site states only the first 19 floors unoccupied, which makes more sense for a 186ft base. "which will contain the Freedom Tower's 80-foot tall lobby and three of its mechanical floors."
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Take A look... http://www.renewnyc.com/images_WMS/freedom_tower/Section_06-27-06.jpg

[talltowers08]

I just read the informatation that is show it seems reliable but yeah maybe it is wrong. I thought it would be 45 floors vacant incase of car/ truck bombings to keep the workers of the tower safe. Touch wood it doesnt happen.

[Kamatzu]

Originally Posted by sask1982

What did the original WTC have for parking? Did it not?

The old WTC had underground parking, and I've seen a couple pictures with aboveground parking near the South Tower, which I still don't completely understand.

Anyway, the September status report on the WTC comes out tomorrow.
Something to look forward to! (Hopefully)

[jjk1103]

Originally Posted by A-K O.G.

Come on lets use our heads, you believe nearly half this tower will be vacant...
1st-45th floors (base) - Podium (not occupied on the base except for lobby)[citation needed].. ANYONE can add information to wikipedia...

http://skyscraperpage.com/cities/?buildingID=7788, THIS site states only the first 19 floors unoccupied, which makes more sense for a 186ft base. "which will contain the Freedom Tower's 80-foot tall lobby and three of its mechanical floors."
.

Take A look... http://www.renewnyc.com/images_WMS/freedom_tower/Section_06-27-06.jpg

...ok, that makes a lot more sense. thanks

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Kamatzu

The old WTC had underground parking, and I've seen a couple pictures with aboveground parking near the South Tower, which I still don't completely understand.

Yeah, the original WTC had underground parking. In fact, the Freedom Tower is being built over what remains of it. As far as surface parking, there was a little above ground parking on Church Street (in front of 4 and 5 WTC), but I don't remember exactly what it was for. It wasn't general public parking.

[NYguy]

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081001/FREE/810019973/1058/toc

Port Authority shocker: Trade Center making progress
Report due Thursday to conclude Silverstein can finish on schedule.

October 1, 2008

The Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is slated to announce Thursday that it will meet all its obligations to lay the groundwork that will allow Larry Silverstein to complete the three towers he is developing at World Trade Center site by 2012 as scheduled, sources say.

Thursday’s report, these say sources, will be nowhere near as bleak as imagined last June.

One source attributes the new, more optimistic view of progress at Ground Zero to design and engineering changes made in recent weeks. Currently, the Port Authority's Freedom Tower, like Mr. Silverstein’s buildings, are due to be finished by 2012.

[Ghost]

That's great news!

[Starsky]

Are they actually building vertically yet? All the government red tape!

Can you imagine back NYC in the 30's with buildings racing up at a floor a day! Hey, they look good and they are holding up just fine. So much for regulations.

[NYC4Life]

Originally Posted by Starsky

Are they actually building vertically yet? All the government red tape!

Can you imagine back NYC in the 30's with buildings racing up at a floor a day! Hey, they look good and they are holding up just fine. So much for regulations.

All the elements of the new WTC Complex are under construction, with the exception of 200 Greenwich (WTC Tower 2). The Port Authority has not yet completed excavation for the tower.

[NYguy]

http://curbed.com/archives/2008/10/02/la...imetable_results_not_guaranteed.php#more

Ladies & Gentlemen, Your New and Improved WTC Timetable! (Results Not Guaranteed.)

Thursday, October 2, 2008, by Joey

The Port Authority issued its long-awaited report setting a new road map for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, the —-kicking, name-taking final say on when our city's great shame will be replaced by memorials, museums, trains and gleaming glass towers filled with worker bees of uncertain employment. Now, issued press release just deals with the parts of the plan the Port Authority is in charge of (Freedom Tower, Santiago Calatrava's PATH station, the extension of Greenwich Street, etc.), but it is believed that developer Larry Silverstein will deliver Towers 3 and 4 in 2012, and Tower 2 (the diamondy one) a year later. On to the details!

[NYguy]

http://www.globest.com/news/1257_1257/newyork/174206-1.html

The report set a new timetable for completion of One World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower and the site's entire public infrastructure. One World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, is scheduled for completion between the second and fourth quarters of 2013, at a cost of $3.1 billion.

The increased cost of One World Trade Center, the Freedom Tower, is due to price escalation and project changes, including increasing the size of the observation deck from one to two levels and reducing the restaurant to one level to accommodate the projected number of visitors to the rooftop location.

[talltowers08]

If that is the best they can do then that is it nothing more can be done to speed this up.