News/Press - 3 World Trade Center

Offices With More Breathing Room

Dec 15, 2011

The 28th floor of the office building at 499 Park Avenue has 17-foot-high windows that run from floor to ceiling on four sides, and they offer views clear to the George Washington Bridge and to airpla...

WTC Construction Updates, October 2011

Dec 12, 2011

Concrete core wall complete up to the 34th floor. Steel erection is up to the 53rd floor and will be on the 56th floor by the end of the month. Curtain wall installation is currently on the 17th floor...

WTC Construction Update, December 2011

Dec 12, 2011

Steel erection is progress on the 57th floor. Concrete core walls are complete up to the 50th Floor, with concrete on metal deck complete to the 53rd floor. Curtain wall installation complete to 38th ...

California Company Execs Honored with IRMI Risk Management Award

Nov 15, 2011

Two senior managers of Watsonville, Calif.-based Granite Construction Inc. have been chosen as the 2011 recipients of the Gary E. Bird Horizon Award for innovation and excellence in risk management at...

New Glass Design for One World Trade Center Base Wins Approval

Nov 14, 2011

The concrete base of One World Trade Center will be enshrouded by stainless steel panels and glass to reflect light during the day, giving the iconic building a distinct street-level appearance, the P...

Hard Hats and Acrobats at 1 World Trade

Nov 04, 2011

What's it like constructing One World Trade Center from the ground up? Tom Llamas and producer Keith Feldman take a ride to the 84th floor to show us what its like for these iron workers 1,000 feet up...

Downtown Artist’s Work Arises From WTC Construction

Oct 10, 2011

With incredible views from the 48th floor of 7 World Trade Center, you might expect artist Marcus Robinson to paint the skyline. But instead, he is inspired by what what's happening at ground level.

Silverstein Shares Updates, Lessons From WTC Development

Oct 06, 2011

When Larry Silverstein was asked to lend some of his time to be the featured guest at a B'nai B'rith real estate luncheon event held yesterday he was happy to oblige, and even agreed to pay for lunch,...

Full house at Seven World Trade Center

Sep 20, 2011

Long before Condé Nast took 1 million square feet at 1 World Trade Center, the New York Academy of Sciences took 40,000 square feet at 7 World Trade Center -- a small lease signed in 2005 which, in y...

Joe Woolhead, the Poet-Photographer of Ground Zero

Sep 19, 2011

The World Trade Center site may be the most famous construction project since the Tower of Babel, if not the most contentious. But most of the work has taken place behind some 13,000 feet of blue cons...

Rebuilding of Ground Zero

Sep 19, 2011

Tonight the rebuilding of Ground Zero with Larry Silverstein, president and CEO of Silverstein Properties; Chris Ward, the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; architec...

7 World Trade Center Fully Leased

Sep 19, 2011

In a milestone for Downtown in the post-9/11 era, 7 World Trade Center - built by Larry Silverstein in the face of withering criticism and claims it would be a "white elephant" - is now 100 percent le...

New Public Art in Shadow of 4 World Trade Center

Sep 13, 2011

Art lovers can now "walk" to "work" in Lower Manhattan. Only a few blocks from the international installation Walking Men 99 TM is the newest outdoor public art installation, Men At Work, wrapping the...

Larry Silverstein remarks for WTC Update

Sep 07, 2011

Good morning and welcome to 7 World Trade Center. It’s an honor to be here today with two stalwart rebuilding leaders – Mayor Bloomberg and Speaker Silver; Chris Ward, our partner at the Port Auth...

Twin Towers memorial rises from rubble

Sep 06, 2011

A decade and a day after the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, the public will be able to return for the first time to the place where the Twin Towers stood.

September 11th Events & Programs

Sep 06, 2011

The Downtown Alliance is providing an ongoing list of events and programs taking place this year to mark the 10-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. For quick and easy access to this listing and ...

The rebirth of downtown New York’s business district

Sep 06, 2011

Devastated by the 9/11 attacks, downtown New York is once again staking its claim as one of the world's premier business districts based on competitive rents and the old-fashioned value of face-to-fac...

Daniel Libeskind and Dara McQuillan give virtual tour of World Trade Center...

Sep 06, 2011

Next weekend the world will turn its gaze to the World Trade Center site as the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that rocked New York City – and the world – approaches. Rebuilding effort...

WTC Construction Update, September 2011

Sep 05, 2011

Memorial and Museum: Over 220 trees have been planted at the site, Artifact installation in underground Museum space, Both structural steel and facade installation is now complete at the Memorial Pavi...

9/11 A Decade Later: World Trade Center Leaseholder Discusses Rebuilding Ef...

Sep 02, 2011

Most New Yorkers know Larry Silverstein as the leaseholder on the World Trade Center. What they may not know is that he signed that lease in July 2001, just eight weeks before it was destroyed.

Finally, World Trade Center rises from ground zero

Sep 01, 2011

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks destroyed the World Trade Center, an 80-story glass and steel tower is rising like a phoenix from the ashes of ground zero.

WTC’s Place of Peace

Aug 25, 2011

Even as concrete mixers hummed beyond the chain-link fence and half a dozen cranes buzzed hundreds of feet above, there was a genuine calm in the reborn plaza at the World Trade Center where nearly 3,...