This past spring, Anthony Malkin, president of Malkin Properties and an owner of the Empire State Building, started paying attention to an office tower planned by Vornado Realty Trust. The giant office landlord was seeking approvals to build a tower up to 1,216 feet high two blocks to his building's west, on what's now Read More
Port Authority executive director Chris Ward is planning a trip to Europe next week in a bid to market One World Trade Center to potential tenants, a spokesman for the bi-state agency confirmed.
Mr. Ward plans to be gone May 25 through 31 on the trip, said the spokesman, Stephen Sigmund, and plans to travel to Read More
Well, the news that Condé Nast is contemplating a move to the Freedom Tower has gotten us awfully excited here in the Observer bullpen (see, media and real estate). And we're hoping that Condé Nast will someday get naming rights to the biggest tower in the world if/when they decide to move (their lease at 4 Times Read More
In February 2007, Douglas Durst was no fan of the Freedom Tower. The prominent landlord broadcast this view not only to his peers but to everyone: He took out full-page ads in the city’s major papers with an open letter to then governor Eliot Spitzer asking him to halt construction of the 1,776-foot tower at Read More
One clear morning last week, an American flag rose above the expanse of scaffolding and steel that stretches across the World Trade Center construction site. With it rose a somewhat less iconic marker in the national consciousness: the green and yellow logo of the Subway sandwich chain. The yellow shipping container and soon-to-be sub Read More
A photo tour of the World Trade Center site: Freedom Tower, Memorial and Read More
A deal to broadcast 11 stations from atop the planned Freedom Tower has fallen apart, seemingly bringing to a close years of negotiations. According to multiple people familiar with discussions, the Metropolitan Television Alliance, a consortium of local television stations, last month informed the Port Authority that it would not be proceeding with a deal Read More
A deal to broadcast 11 stations from atop the planned Freedom Tower has fallen apart, seemingly bringing to a close years of negotiations. According to multiple people familiar with discussions, the Metropolitan Television Alliance, a consortium of local television stations, last month informed the Port Authority that it would not be proceeding with a deal Read More
The $30 million-plus Freedom Tower antenna deal vanishes, but the Port Authority vows some sort of Read More
Like virtually everything else involved with the World Trade Center redevelopment, the official phasing out of the name “Freedom Tower” has been a slow process. The moniker designated by Governor Pataki in 2003 for the site’s tallest building—which is slated to rise to 1776 feet, if you count the tower’s 408-foot antenna—the name has never Read More
Like virtually everything else involved with the World Trade Center redevelopment, the official phasing out of the name “Freedom Tower” has been a slow process.
The moniker designated by Governor Pataki in 2003 for the site’s tallest building—which is slated to rise to 1776 feet, if you count the tower’s 408-foot antenna—the Read More
Like virtually everything else involved with the World Trade Center redevelopment, the official phasing out of the name “Freedom Tower” has been a slow process.
The moniker designated by Governor Pataki in 2003 for the site’s tallest building—which is slated to rise to 1776 feet, if you count the tower’s 408-foot antenna—the name Read More
The first office lease in the rebuilt World Trade Center is expected to be signed on Thursday, according to officials and others familiar with plans, as the China-based Beijing Vantone Real Estate Company has completed negotiations to take about 190,000 square feet of space in the Freedom Tower.
The Port Authority, which is developing the Freedom Read More
On Friday, the folks over at the Port Authority were kind enough to take me on a tour of construction at the World Trade Center site, which the agency owns. I last went down there a little less than a year ago, and the most notable difference was that we spent almost all the Read More
Here’s a clip of David Shuster, host of MSNBC’s "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue," interviewing/lecturing Port Authority executive director Chris Ward on Friday about the delays surrounding the World Trade Center redevelopment. The interview capped off a weeklong series on the redevelopment, with Mr. Shuster on an apparent crusade to scrap the current redevelopment plans Read More
