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NYguy · #**7901** Posted **Mar 10, 2010, 5:10 PM**

Here's a cam shot from a couple of minutes ago:

NYguy · #**7902** Posted **Mar 10, 2010, 5:21 PM**

http://www.observer.com/2010/daily-transom/port-authority-punts-vornado-brookfield-one-wtc

Port Authority Punts Vornado, Brookfield From One WTC

By Eliot Brown
March 10, 2010

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The race to sell off a portion of the Freedom Tower - officially, One World Trade Center - has kicked into a new gear.

The Port Authority, the New York-New Jersey-controlled bureaucracy that is developing the tower and shopping around an ownership stake, late last month dropped two developers vying to take a piece of the 1,776-foot tower, according to people familiar with the process. Out of the running: Steven Roth's Vornado Realty Trust and Brookfield Properties, run by CEO Ric Clark.

That leaves four developers standing: Mort Zuckerman, Douglas Durst, Stephen Ross and Gerald Hines, who respectively control Boston Properties, the Durst Organization, the Related Companies and Texas-based Hines Interests.

The skyscraper is on the rise in Lower Manhattan, with a hulk of steel currently more than 200 feet above ground. With symbolism and security guiding its design and purpose, it is surely a money drain for the Port Authority, at least in the short run, and costs more than $3 billion, twice the price of the 2,716-foot Burj Khalifa in Dubai, where labor is cheaper.

Thus the agency, searching for the developers with brokerage Cushman Wakefield, wants to bring in some money-it's looking for an investment of about $100 million to take a piece of equity-and to install a well-known developer as the public face of the tower.

OneWorldTradeCenter · #**7903** Posted **Mar 10, 2010, 5:38 PM**

Wow, great image. Do those tracks bring new steel on site??

37TimPPG · #**7904** Posted **Mar 10, 2010, 7:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by OneWorldTradeCenter

Wow, great image. Do those tracks bring new steel on site??

They sure do!

OneWorldTradeCenter · #**7905** Posted **Mar 10, 2010, 9:05 PM**

Amazing! Can´t wait to see it rising taller and taller and taller, ´til its getting taller than all others in the city and country!

JZeig1 · #**7906** Posted **Mar 10, 2010, 10:22 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

asterix611

I don't know whether it's the lense your using or if it's the light, but these photos realy show the angle on the base of the tower. I mean it's really prominent.

colemonkee · #**7907** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 5:35 AM**

^ It's the focal length of the lens. A wide-angle lens like that will exaggerate certain angles that move toward or away from the camera. So the angles of the corners are not that pronounced as they look there. You can tell by the angles on the WFC tower behind it, which obviously doesn't have any acute angles.

hunser · #**7908** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 2:42 PM**

Tonyatnn

korea2002

OneWorldTradeCenter · #**7909** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 2:47 PM**

WOW, the blue light on 7WTC´s base looks lovely! Will 1 WTC have this too?

NYguy · #**7910** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 3:23 PM**

Not likely, although Silverstein has previously said his other towers would be blue...

OneWorldTradeCenter · #**7911** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 3:30 PM**

The base of 1 WTC looks unrealistic on this rendering.

OneWorldTradeCenter · #**7912** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 3:37 PM**

A shot from Wikopedia, taken a few days ago: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/58/1WTC_Construction_march10.jpeg)

FerrariEnzo · #**7913** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 5:39 PM**

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Originally Posted by OneWorldTradeCenter

The base of 1 WTC looks unrealistic on this rendering.

Agreed, though we are speaking about renderings here which as someone pointed out, are works of art in of them selves.

Vesey · #**7914** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 8:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

OLD BASE

Was just reading through some older pages and saw this. Awesome! A shame it had to change, haha. Still no sense dwelling on the past, all the progress is looking great.

steveve · #**7915** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 10:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by OneWorldTradeCenter

WOW, the blue light on 7WTC´s base looks lovely!

I totally agree! It looks really really cool!

Excellent progress on the tower and the memorials.. they look awesome!

Can't wait to see the site in a few years when all the grass/trees are planted and when the memorials are fully functional (and of course, not to mention 1WTC itself!

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Zensteeldude · #**7916** Posted **Mar 11, 2010, 11:08 PM**

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Originally Posted by Domamania

is it me or the steel beems of tower 1 look bigger and more massive then the steel beems of tower 4.

It's not you, they are. Tower One well be twice as tall as Four.

Lecom · #**7917** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 2:55 AM**

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Originally Posted by NYguy

Here's a cam shot from a couple of minutes ago:

Those trucks and people put in perspective how huge the structure, and the lower columns, really are.

NYguy · #**7918** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 4:29 AM**

^ And we're just looking at the "feet" of the tower.

brian.house

Some of the people working in and around the tower...
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/liers-working-at-ground-zero-in-2010-1.1806828

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Henkka · #**7919** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 8:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by Lecom

Those trucks and people put in perspective how huge the structure, and the lower columns, really are.

Yeah, never realised how massive WTC One is until I saw that picture. Can't wait to see it in person this Autumn.

Calgarian · #**7920** Posted **Mar 12, 2010, 3:53 PM**

Good to see this one starting to rise, looks like a massive building.