150 Greenwich Street
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| General information | |
| Status | Under construction |
| Location | 150 Greenwich Street New York City, New York, United States |
| Coordinates | 40°42′37″N 74°00′43″W / 40.710409°N 74.011933°W |
| Estimated completion | 2011 |
| Height | |
| Roof | 975 ft (297 m) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 64 |
| Floor area | 1,800,000 sq ft (167,000 sq m) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Fumihiko Maki |
| Developer | Silverstein Properties |
| Engineer | Leslie E. Robertson Associates |
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150 Greenwich Street is the address for a new skyscraper being erected as part of the World Trade Center reconstruction in New York City. The office building has also been referred to as Four World Trade Center[1] and will be on the east side of Greenwich Street, across the street from the original location of the twin towers that were destroyed during the September 11, 2001 attacks. Noted architect Fumihiko Maki was awarded the contract to design the building, which will be 947 feet (288 m) tall,[2] making it the fourth tallest skyscraper on the World Trade Center site.[3] New revised plans state the tower will now rise a total of 975 feet (297 m).[4] The total floor space of the building is anticipated to include 1.8 million square feet (167,000 square meter) of office and retail space.[5] The building's groundbreaking took place in January 2008, and it is scheduled to be completed by 2011. The structural engineer for the building is Leslie E. Robertson Associates, New York City.[6] As of December 2009[update], only it and One World Trade Center have progressed to the point where the construction is visible above ground level.[7]
Planned occupancy
After completion, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) plans to lease approximately 600,000 square feet (55,700 square meters) in 150 Greenwich for its new headquarters[3][8]. PANYNJ was formerly headquartered in 1 World Trade Center before it was destroyed. The building will dedicate the space on the lower levels for use by retail businesses and also provide access to an underground "retail and transportation concourse" which will be connected to the PATH terminal at the site.[3] The city of New York also plans to lease 600,000 square feet (56,000 m2) in the completed building.[8]
Planned layout
Above the ground portion of the building dedicated for retail use (which consists of the ground floor, the three floors immediately above the ground floor as well as the two floors below ground), the building will accommodate offices using two distinct floor shapes. From floors 7 through 44, the typical floor space will be 36,350 square feet (3,376 square meter) in the shape of a parallelogram (which is designed to echo the configuration of the site).[3] From floors 46 through 60 the floor space will be 28,000 sq ft (2,600 square meter) in the shape of a trapezoid, shaped so that it opens toward the tip of Manhattan Island and also triangulated to face One World Trade Center. The tower will include five levels of mechanical floors.[3]
Construction
Site preparation and excavation were carried out by the Port Authority and were completed on January 12, 2008. Silverstein Properties has now taken over the 150 Greenwich Street site, and has begun construction on the tower. It is planned to be completed by 2011.
By July of 2009, the foundation fo the building was complete. Work on the steel framework of Four World Trade Center's superstructure began in August of 2009, and by December, the building's steel core was roughly 30 feet (9 m) above street level.[7] By April 2010, the building reached four stories above street level.
Future
Since the Port Authority's proposal on May 11, 2009, the building has been the only other one on the site to have its construction continue as planned with no interruption, along with One World Trade Center. The original proposal called for the reduction of 2 World Trade Center and 3 World Trade Center to low-rise retail "stump" buildings only about four stories high,[9] as well as the complete cancellation of building 5. With this, the amount of buildings on the site would have been reduced down to five. However, the initial proposal has now been dropped, in favor of a new plan as of March 25, 2010: The Port Authority will take control of the sites for One World Trade Center and 5 World Trade Center, while Silverstein Properties will be in charge of 2 World Trade Center, 3 World Trade Center, and 4 World Trade Center. The plan calls for the construction of 4 World Trade Center to move forward as planned. Tower 2 will only be built to street level before being delayed indefinitely until economic recovery.[10] Construction of the retail and transportation portions of Tower 3 will proceed immediately, while construction of the actual office tower is contingent on Silverstein obtaining $300 million in private financing and securing leases on one-fifth of the tower.[11]
See also
References
- ^ "Four World Trade Center". Emporis.com. Retrieved 2009-08-07.
- ^ Designs for three World Trade Center Towers Unveiled, Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, URL retrieved September 7, 2006
- ^ a b c d e 150 Greenwich St., Maki and Associates, Architectural Fact Sheet - September 2006, URL retrieved February 9, 2007
- ^ "LEED Gold Greenwich Street Towers to Break Ground at WTC in Early 2008". 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2007-11-08.
- ^ Pogrebin,Robin, Richard Rogers to Design Tower at Ground Zero, The New York Times, (May 3, 2006), URL retrieved June 22, 2006
- ^ "Ground Zero Office Designs Hailed as Hopeful Symbols" in Engineering News-Record, September 18, 2006, pg. 12
- ^ a b "Now a tower of steel". Downtown Express. December 11, 2009. p. 12.
- ^ a b Dunlap, David W. (9 July 2008). "Answers About Ground Zero Rebuilding". New York Times. New York, New York: New York Times Co. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
- ^ Feiden, Doug (2009-05-11). "Agency wants to dump 3 skyscrapers from site, shrinking 2 into 'stumps'". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ Topousis, Tom (26 March 2010). "Towering Dea l". NY Post. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
- ^ Silverstein Properties (25 March 2010). "Joint Statement on World Trade Center Development Plan". Retrieved 30 March 2010.
External links
- 150 Greenwich Street - Official site
- Tower 4 Design Update (video)
- Images of 150 Greenwich Street (images)
- Skyscraperpage.com - Diagram of building