NEW YORK | 200 Greenwich - 2 WTC | 1,270 FT | 80 FLOORS | ON HOLD - Page 18

JDRCRASH · #**341** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 3:38 AM**

^
Maybe thats where he got his 13,000 posts from.

Just Kidding! But those are awesome photos, and I don't mind seeing them more than once.

JDRCRASH · #**342** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 3:45 AM**

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Originally Posted by Alliance

Antennas have never counted in official height measurements... only in the "pinnacle" category....hence the thread title.

It already is...by 107 ft.

I'm talking about TOTAL height. Trump Int. Hotel & Tower has a tall antennae that makes it taller than 200 Greenwich, even with the finished diamond. In the diagram section, it's a few feet shorter than Donald's.

NYguy · #**343** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 11:44 AM**

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Originally Posted by aluminum

^ Yeah, I know. And thanks to NYguy, they've been posted on this forum for about a million times now.

Well, when people continue to make dense and obtuse statements, the need arises. Take note.

NYguy · #**344** Posted **Mar 17, 2008, 11:50 AM**

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172008...pit_102338.htm

RISING FROM THE PIT
WTC'S '1ST SPROUT'

2009

2010

2011

A WHOLE OTHER LEVEL - Digital renderings show the progress planned for the World Trade Center site, including the Freedom Tower breaking street level this year.

By TOM TOPOUSIS
March 17, 2008

The reborn World Trade Center will begin rising above street level this spring - when the Freedom Tower's steel frame emerges from its 80-foot-deep construction pit, officials say.

The tower itself is now just 10 feet from street level, Port Authority Executive Director Anthony Shorris said.

"We expect it to reach past street level in a few months," he said.

Shorris and Ground Zero developer Larry Silverstein, who is building three office towers at the site, said virtually every project at the World Trade Center is now under construction after years of cleanup, design and site preparation.

A time-lapse rendering of the 16-acre site prepared by the Port Authority shows the project coming together over the next five years like a massive jigsaw puzzle, with more than 10,000 construction workers assembling the pieces.

By the end of this year, the Freedom Tower's steel will be racing skyward, while a steel base for the memorial is being set in place. And foundations for Silverstein's three towers and the Santiago Calatrava-designed transit hub will be under construction.

By the end of 2010, the Freedom Tower and Silverstein's Towers 2 and 3 will reach rooftop level, and the memorial plaza will be complete and ready for the planting of more than 400 trees.

Silverstein's Tower 2, the second tallest at the site, will have topped out by the end of 2011.

"By the end of 2012, as they say, it'll all be over but the shouting," Shorris said at a New York Building Congress luncheon last week.

"What is falling into place is a construction-coordination machine of truly unprecedented complexity."

The four towers inside the perimeter of the original World Trade Center site will include 141,000 tons of steel and 593,000 cubic yards of concrete.

A fifth tower is planned a block away on the site of the former Deutsche Bank building. That tower is slated to be complete by the end of 2012.

Just to clear sites for Silverstein's three towers, the Port Authority excavated and hauled out enough dirt and rock to fill Giants Stadium.

Silverstein, who acknowledged that "things haven't always gone as smoothly or as swiftly as everyone - including me - had hoped," predicted that the final outcome in five years will create a new economic engine in lower Manhattan.

But Silverstein said the proof of progress for New Yorkers made skeptical by delays and missed deadlines will be the visible construction now shaping up.

"There has not been this much going on at the site since the cleanup concluded close to six years ago," he said.

JDRCRASH · #**345** Posted **Mar 18, 2008, 7:24 PM**

It would be symbolic if the completion of the project happened on 9/11/2011, instead of 2012 or 2013.

JDRCRASH · #**346** Posted **Mar 18, 2008, 7:24 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by NYguy

Well, when people continue to make dense and obtuse statements, the need arises. Take note.

NYguy · #**347** Posted **Apr 18, 2008, 1:07 PM**

Quote from an article in the Downtown Express
http://downtownexpress.com/de_259/postreports.html

Port reports on World Trade Center progress

By Julie Shapiro
APRIL 19 - 26, 2008

Brathwaite also gave updates on Towers 2, 3 and 4, which Silverstein Properties is building. Silverstein recently finished doing test blasts at the sites for Towers 3 and 4 and is now preparing to do production blasting, to ready the bathtub for the foundations of the towers, designed by Richard Rogers and Fumihiko Maki. Workers will blow warning whistles before blasts to advise residents, workers and pedestrians, Brathwaite said.

Just to the north, the Port Authority is excavating the Tower 2 site, which it must turn over to Silverstein Properties by June 30 or else face a $300,000-a-day penalty. The Port faced a similar deadline for Towers 3 and 4 and ultimately paid Silverstein $14.4 million after missing the Dec. 31, 2007 deadline by nearly seven weeks.

But Brathwaite said things look better at Tower 2 and the Port expects to meet the June 30 deadline. There is less dense rock at Tower 2, meaning that the Port likely will not have to use hoe rams, large jackhammers, to finish excavating. The density of the rock is what delayed the excavation at Towers 3 and 4, and the pounding of the hoe rams kept residents up all night long late last fall into the winter.

Glenn Guzi, a Port Authority program manager, said the Port would try not to work between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. But Bill Love, a board member who lives in Gateway Plaza, said he recently looked out his window at 1 a.m. and saw two machines digging at the Tower 2 site.

After resident complaints during the excavation for Towers 3 and 4, the Port Authority agreed to pay for soundproof windows in three residential buildings: 110 Liberty St., 125 Cedar St. and 90 West St. The Port is working with building owners but no windows have been installed yet, Guzi said. He added that the Port has no plans to extend the program to additional buildings, like Gateway Plaza.

Work is also moving ahead at the Freedom Tower, where passersby will begin to see steel rising past street level in the late summer or early fall, Brathwaite said.

NYguy · #**348** Posted **Apr 18, 2008, 9:55 PM**

http://www.observer.com/2008/backstage-freedom-tower

The site for Tower 2. The Port Authority has until June 30 to excavate this down to bedrock, when it will owe Silverstein Properties $300,000 for each day’s delay. There is an incentive of around $10 million for the contractors to finish on time, according to a Port Authority spokeswoman.

CoolCzech · #**349** Posted **Apr 19, 2008, 12:58 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by NYguy

Quote from an article in the Downtown Express
http://downtownexpress.com/de_259/postreports.html

Port reports on World Trade Center progress

By Julie Shapiro
APRIL 19 - 26, 2008

Work is also moving ahead at the Freedom Tower, where passersby will begin to see steel rising past street level in the late summer or early fall, Brathwaite said.

Late summer/early fall??

DAMN. I thought it was supposed to be in a manner of weeks...

NYguy · #**350** Posted **May 9, 2008, 2:31 PM**

Next month is the start for this one...

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NYguy · #**351** Posted **May 16, 2008, 6:10 AM**

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theWatusi · #**352** Posted **May 16, 2008, 6:16 PM**

what are those pile things in the 2nd to last picture?

Dream'n · #**353** Posted **May 17, 2008, 5:57 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDRCRASH

It would be symbolic if the completion of the project happened on 9/11/2011, instead of 2012 or 2013.

I first read it as 9/11/2911.

[SP]Neo · #**354** Posted **May 22, 2008, 8:18 PM**

why was this thread moved from supertall to New York?

CoolCzech · #**355** Posted **May 22, 2008, 9:36 PM**

Because all New York projects are being gathered into this one city compilation. That way, NYC fans can find all projects in one convenient location instead of hunting for them in different forums or mixed in with dozens of projects from other cities.

Scruffy · #**356** Posted **May 22, 2008, 10:50 PM**

that timeline is already outdated. The news this week is that all sides agree that the bathtub for 2 won't be ready in time for the handoff date. The city is trying to find concessions with Silverstein that would be in lieu of the massive penalties. This since they owe Silverstein a ton of money for the site of towers 3 and 4 being handed over late.

NYguy · #**357** Posted **May 22, 2008, 10:58 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scruffy

that timeline is already outdated. The news this week is that all sides agree that the bathtub for 2 won't be ready in time for the handoff date. The city is trying to find concessions with Silverstein that would be in lieu of the massive penalties. This since they owe Silverstein a ton of money for the site of towers 3 and 4 being handed over late.

Yeah, there is a June deadline for that tub to be finished. It'll likely be sometime in July or August before Silverstein gets the land.

Lecom · #**358** Posted **May 23, 2008, 4:03 AM**

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Originally Posted by theWatusi

what are those pile things in the 2nd to last picture?

Probably foundations of the original complex. It's also possible that they already drove those in for the new tower (which would make 2WTC officially under construction), but that's highly unlikely.

NYguy · #**359** Posted **May 23, 2008, 5:49 AM**

This was also the site of 5 WTC, and its surrounding plaza.

NYguy · #**360** Posted **May 30, 2008, 1:19 PM**

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