Posted Mar 21, 2019, 2:57 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Borough of Jersey
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Originally Posted by jayden
I never saw the appeal in the original Foster (2002) design. Like, it doesn't even look realistic...
Anyway, I've always thought BIG's design was a better fit.
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Nothing about it is unrealistic. Especially with the skyscraper designs that we see rising today. Maybe in 1950, but not today.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...d-trade-center
Citi-Backed Mortgage Startup Takes Space at 3 World Trade Center
By Lily Katz
March 14, 2019
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Better.com, the home-financing startup backed by Citigroup Inc. and other major financial firms, plans to move into 3 World Trade Center as it looks to grow beyond its current office in a neighboring downtown Manhattan skyscraper.
The company, founded in New York City in 2016, signed a lease for 44,000 square feet (4,000 square meters) on the tower’s 59th story and has the option to expand on two more floors, according to a statement from landlord Silverstein Properties Inc.
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Owners of office buildings in lower Manhattan have faced competition from glassy new skyscrapers in Midtown East and Hudson Yards, the $25 billion development on the far west side that has lured high-profile tenants such as BlackRock Inc. and KKR & Co.
“Park Avenue or Hudson Yards are for people who’ve already made it,” Better.com Chief Executive Officer Vishal Garg said in an interview. “Downtown is for people who are making it.”
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At 3 World Trade Center, Better.com will join tenants including advertising company GroupM, consulting giant McKinsey & Co. and stock-exchange operator IEX Group Inc. Silverstein also recently signed leases with mattress startup Casper, quantitative-trading firm Hudson River Trading and beverage company Diageo Plc. The 80-story, 2.8 million-square-foot tower opened in June and is more than 50 percent leased.
Silverstein Chairman Larry Silverstein said in February that he may consider starting construction on 2 World Trade Center, the final skyscraper at the downtown site, without a committed tenant if the developer makes leasing progress in the other towers.
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