Posted Oct 8, 2010, 1:24 PM
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Location: Borough of Jersey
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Originally Posted by Aleks
love that shot! the outline of tower 2 is a great relief from the boxy towers.
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It is great to look at from overhead, and you realize just how close these buildings are going to be.
http://www.downtownexpress.com/de_389/portprovides.html
Port provides update to WTC Committee
BY Aline Reynolds
October 6 - 12, 2010
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“Construction is now underway on all parts of the site – it’s [been] a heck of a challenge, but it’s never been at that point before, and that’s something to celebrate,” said Janno Lieber, president of Silverstein Properties. And though Silverstein and the Port have come a long way in achieving that goal, their jobs are not quite finished, he said.
“We don’t just have to fill the buildings as a leasing matter,” Lieber said. “We have to make sure we have the kind of tenants that are going to support [Downtown] culture.”
One of the goals, he mentioned, is to secure office tenants for all of Tower 4 by the end of 2010. Six out of 64 stories of the tower has been built. Lieber pointed out the adhesive, dense fireproofing as a major safety feature of the future building. Its lobby, which will face Memorial Park, will have a granite wall reflecting the trees as a sign of respect to the park.
The W.T.C. is “a very special place that we hope will be an urban model for the country and even for the world,” he said, “and we’ve gotten most of the way there.”
Ward assured the committee of the strengthened relationship between the Port and Silverstein in light of the recent financial agreement: “In all aspects we have certainty, for the first time, and a level of progress and public accountability,” he said.
Ward said the Port is finalizing negotiations with Westfield Group, an Australian shopping mall operator, to create approximately 500,000 square feet in retail space in Towers 2, 3 and 4.
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I'm tellin ya'll, the bases of each are basically modernized versions of the originals but with even more pedestrian friendly lobbies and looking up at the towers will be even more dense than the originals too!
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