[THE BIG APPLE]

111 8th Ave along with 32 Avenue of the Americas and 60 Hudson St is one of the BIG THREE data centers, and carrier hotels in NYC with the other two being 60 Hudson, and 32 AofA. It is 264 Feet tall and has 18 floors. When it was completed in 1931 (same year as the other two buildings) it was called the Port of New York Authority Commerce Building. Since then it has had many names considering its size and how much space it takes up. Alternative names include 68 9th Avenue, 301 West 15th Street, and 300 West 16th Street. It has 2,900,000 square feet which is the most of the three buildings. It is the shortest of the three buildings.

111 Eighth Avenue is a full-block Art Deco multi-use building located between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 15th and 16th Streets in the Chelsea neighborhood of the Manhattan borough of the American New York City, New York.

The building was designed by Lusby Simpson of Abbott, Merkt & Co. and completed in 1932.

It was formerly known as the Commerce Building of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and its headquarters before the World Trade Center was constructed in the 1970s, and before that it was known as the Union Inland Terminal #1, a freight terminal and warehouse.

The building most recently has been used as a carrier hotel, where multiple customers locate network, server and storage gear and interconnect to a variety of telecommunications and other network service providers. The building was the eighth-largest commercial structure in Manhattan as of 1997.

In 2010, Google, which had previously leased space in the building, contracted to purchase the entire 2,900,000-square-foot (270,000 m2) building, in a deal reported to be worth around $1.9 billion.