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NYguy · #**701** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 12:38 PM**

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Originally Posted by northface

when does the core and steel come above street level?

Early next year.

JACKinBeantown · #**702** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 3:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by winst69

Freedom Tower will sit over the tracks when it is built

Will it make use of those existing beams/pilings? They seem much thinner than the taller, new ones on the south wall.

charger1966 · #**703** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 4:00 PM**

Looks to me that they are dismantling the first large crane.

Does anyone have any new pictures from down in the site?

Lance

winst69 · #**704** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 4:59 PM**

From what i've read, there was a lot of work going on in the path tunnels to allow for new pilings.

drew11 · #**705** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 5:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by charger1966

Looks to me that they are dismantling the first large crane.

Does anyone have any new pictures from down in the site?

Lance

it looks like they are getting ready for another one, you decide

zerokarma · #**706** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 5:56 PM**

Good updates

banned · #**707** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 6:30 PM**

The mobile crane is being dismantled according to that picture.

NYguy · #**708** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 6:42 PM**

They should have put one massive crane in the middle of West Street to handle both the Freedom and Goldman Sachs towers...

Daquan13 · #**709** Posted **Apr 19, 2007, 9:41 PM**

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Originally Posted by banned

The mobile crane is being dismantled according to that picture.

Yes, I think the tower crane will now take over the responsibilities of the mobile crane as well as erect the FT. The other tower cranes will be invited to the party once they are erected.

Now I remember! The tower's columns for the base work WILL poke through that portion of the PATH tunnel which helps to support the building.

DUBAI2015 · #**710** Posted **Apr 20, 2007, 12:07 AM**

I'm gonna miss that red crane.

H-man · #**711** Posted **Apr 20, 2007, 12:30 AM**

you can really see GS pickin up some steam

Daquan13 · #**712** Posted **Apr 20, 2007, 12:32 AM**

Dubai, don't give up hope just yet.

We might see it again when the other towers join the party!

H-man, yes - like a runaway freight train! But from what I heard, that's just the base. The actual tower itself has not started to rise yet.

In my estimation, this tower should be at least 2/3 the way up by the time the Freedom Tower's base frame is erected.

LSyd · #**713** Posted **Apr 20, 2007, 12:33 AM**

i was there on sunday. i'll have some pics up this weekend. seeing the tower crane poking up was cool.

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DUBAI2015 · #**714** Posted **Apr 20, 2007, 3:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by Daquan13

Dubai, don't give up hope just yet.

We might see it again when the other towers join the party!

When are they supposed to start? Summer '07?

Daquan13 · #**715** Posted **Apr 20, 2007, 1:00 PM**

I believe around the 1st quarter. The new bathtub that's being put in on that side should be done by then. The red crane may return by then.

But like the Freedom Tower, we probably won't see steel rising for any of them until the following year.

CoolCzech · #**716** Posted **Apr 20, 2007, 3:39 PM**

USA Today

Office space demand up at Ground Zero site

By Martha T. Moore, USA TODAY
NEW YORK — A hot office market is casting a glow over the controversial Freedom Tower.
Rents are up and vacancies down in the financial district surrounding the World Trade Center site, improving the market prospects for the four office towers now being built at Ground Zero, including the 1,776-foot, $2.9 billion Freedom Tower.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the Freedom Tower, says it has talked to investors who want to buy into the building.

"A building that only a year ago people were describing as everything from a high risk to a white elephant is now being viewed as a valuable property," says Anthony Shorris, Port Authority executive director. No deals have been struck, he says.

Office rents in lower Manhattan returned to pre-9/11 levels for the first time during the first quarter of 2007, according to a report from real estate agency Cushman & Wakefield. The vacancy rate for prime office space in the neighborhood fell to 6.3% for the first three months of the year from 12.5% in the first quarter of 2006.

As lower Manhattan struggled to recover from the 9/11 attacks, government agencies promised to lease almost half the space in the Freedom Tower in order to make it financially feasible to build.

The strong real estate market now puts the 10 million square feet of office space being built at Ground Zero "in a very positive light," says John Cefaly, vice chairman of Cushman & Wakefield. There's "tremendous demand" for office space.

Demolition on the former Deutsche Bank building, the black-shrouded building across the street from the Trade Center site, finally began this month after years of delay. The investment and commercial bank J.P. Morgan Chase may build a tower on the site. When the office market was weaker, the site had been considered for an apartment building.

The cultural building planned for Ground Zero, which originally was to be occupied by four different groups, continues to shrink. Current plans call for the building to house one theater company. Like the World Trade Center memorial, it must be redesigned to cost less, city officials said this week.

The cultural building has been altered so much that planners should scrap it and start over, says Tom Healey of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, a non-profit arts group. He'd prefer an outdoor amphitheater on the site.

NYguy · #**717** Posted **Apr 21, 2007, 1:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by H-man

you can really see GS pickin up some steam

That's usually the case with most New York skyscrapers. There's excavation, or demolition, then seemingly months and months of nothing. Then there's a crane, a little more waiting. And finally, things start rising. But when they rise, they rise fast.

Daquan13 · #**718** Posted **Apr 21, 2007, 5:08 PM**

Yeah, NYguy. I like the part; "Then seemingly months and months of nothing." Haha!!

As if they seem to be making up for lost time.

In all, 5, count 'em, FIVE NEW TOWERS will eventually be poking up from the ground all at once with the GS Tower included!

Wow!! What a sight that's gonna be! Awesome!!! A skyscraper observer's delight!!

#**719** Posted **Apr 21, 2007, 5:52 PM**

Oh... finally a crane. Maybe more 6 years to rise a floor..

Daquan13 · #**720** Posted **Apr 21, 2007, 6:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Mkmillenium

Oh... finally a crane. Maybe more 6 years to rise a floor..

To the contrary.

Once more steel is delivered to Ground Zero for the base of the tower, we'll start to see the thing takoff and roar into the sky like a 777!

Usually, the steel frame for a skyscraper is built 2 or 3 tiers (floors) at a time, so we could see this tower sprout up in record time. Remember 7 WTC? Seemed like the steel for that building was all erected in a year!

Even though the FT is about twice the height of 7 WTC, usually steel work rises at an accellerating speed. It happened with NYT, Hearst, and now with the BOFA Tower.