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Originally Posted by JMKeynes
I wouldn’t be surprised to see this redesigned as a mixed use tower with 1m sf of office, 500k sf of condo, and 300k sf of hotel.
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Not gonna happen. For one thing, residential is currently not permitted on site. For another, there are already multiple residential towers in the works. There is no reason they will change the programming just to get
something on site. That hardly happens anywhere, no reason to think it should happen here. Do people really think there will never be demand for new office space in lower Manhattan again? With some of these comments, I wonder.
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“This is a decision they made because of their business and financial health,” said a disappointed Jessica Lappin, president of the Alliance for Downtown, who said she believed the bank’s employees wanted to remain in the area. “They are retrenching and reorganizing, and (that’s) why I can see being the anchor tenant at 2 World Trade was a bridge too far for them.”
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There are many factors that go into a tenant signing a long term lease, and there are lease signings every year in the city. It's a large city, with a large amount of office space, and turnover is a part of the process. What you try to do is get the tenants that are nearing lease expirations, or looking for new or consolidated space. There will always be those tenants. If you don't get one, you keep looking.
As for a redesign itself, no reason for that either. The current design has pretty much all of the amenity space the current crop of towers
must have. As far as the view of Central Park, maybe some people would prefer looking out at that. I don't think it was a major factor though.
For comparison, some of the TWC renders...
https://commercialobserver.com/2018/...street/#slide0
By comparison, the current 2 WTC design...
https://www.6sqft.com/bjarke-ingels-...-trade-center/