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Old Posted Dec 16, 2014, 6:26 PM
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Rat plague worsens at 1 WTC
Conde Nast staffers say that the rats have “taken over”


December 14, 2014







Bring out the Trump...


http://nypost.com/2014/12/16/donald-...ment-of-1-wtc/

Donald takes to Twitter over Durst’s management of 1 WTC


By Steve Cuozzo
December 16, 2014


Quote:
.....On Dec. 10, Trump blasted Durst’s stewardship of One World Trade Center three times on Twitter.

“Durst is a terrible manager. Tenants furious,” he tweeted of “endless security checks” at 1 WTC.

“Condé Nast made a big mistake going into the World Trade Center. The place is a total disaster and I feel this is only the beginning,” a second tweet fumed.


And, for good measure, “Durst is a disaster at operating the new World Trade Center,” again citing “impossible security.”

Of course, Trump is a TV showman as well as a real-estate guy, and he has a long history with colorful insults. (Remember how Leona Helmsley was “a disgrace to the human race?”)

But it’s hard to fathom his animus toward Durst, with whom he doesn’t compete — Trump hasn’t developed a new Manhattan building in many years — and whom he claims never to have met.

At least he’s dropped (for now at least) the bizarre attacks he made on Douglas Durst a year ago, when he suggested that his killer brother Robert Durst had a legitimate grudge which might have made him “angry.”

Trump told us Monday, “We were asked to be a bidder” on the minority stake in 1 WTC, which is 80 percent owned by the Port Authority, but declined because he preferred to build a “taller, stronger, more beautiful” version of the Twin Towers.

He stood by his tweets, saying, “If you go to meet somebody at Condé Nast it takes 25, 30 minutes to go through security.”

But Donald, haven’t you always said the WTC was a No. 1 terror target “with a bull’s eye around its neck?” Wouldn’t that be a good reason for intense security?

“You have to have security, yes, but you don’t want to be a tenant. People find it very unacceptable,” Trump said.

Never mind that it was Condé Nast, not Durst or the PA, that set up its own rigorous screening procedures. “People would much rather be at 40 Wall Street,” Trump sniffed, plugging the 1930s office tower he owns a few blocks east.

He also said Condé employees were “absolutely devastated [over] what’s going on” with other 1 WTC tenants. “There’s a Chinese company in there that speaks no English,” he fumed.

(Beijing Vantone signed a lease at 1 WTC two years before Condé Nast did. The tower’s 3 million square feet are about 63 percent leased and more deals are pending. Other office tenants include the federal GSA, KIDS creative, ad firm xAd and High 5 Games, while the Observatory on the 100th to 103rd floors has been leased to operator Legends.)

Trump grumbled that Durst had moved Condé Nast out of his 4 Times Square “so he could rent the space at a higher price in a stronger market.” Maybe he’s just jealous?

A Durst spokesman took the high road, declining to comment and instead referring us to Condé Nast.

Condé spokeswoman Patricia Rockenwagner said: “Condé Nast is proud to be the first major media company to commit to be relocating downtown and we’re very enthusiastic about being the first tenants of 1 World Trade Center. It is a beautiful building and an inspiring place to work.”
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