NEW YORK | One World Trade Center | 1,787' Pinnacle / 1,373' Roof | 108 FLOORS - Page 154

America 117 · #**3061** Posted: **Jun 8, 2008, 6:05 PM**

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Originally Posted by Kamatzu

Most likely sometime between today and 2011.

In all seriousness, though. I believe I've heard September or October as a reasonable guess to see the first floors start popping up. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

that sounds great

but i wish it could be a little sooner.

NYguy · #**3062** Posted: **Jun 8, 2008, 7:40 PM**

Doesn't seem that long ago that ground zero was just a giant hole in the ground, and not the full fledged construction site that it is today.
What we're seeing today is not the stuff that has to be removed, but permanent pieces of the new WTC. Doesn't seem like much now,
but it is the foundation in more than the literal sense, of New York's grandest complex.

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Originally Posted by NYguy

From Grand Apple

NYguy · #**3063** Posted: **Jun 8, 2008, 7:51 PM**

From Moxie Star

colemonkee · #**3064** Posted: **Jun 8, 2008, 10:10 PM**

Looks like one of those core sections is at ground level, or really close.

Lecom · #**3065** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 2:59 AM**

NYC4Life · #**3066** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 3:09 AM**

Freedom Tower will look great for the same reason as some of the females working on it

Scruffy · #**3067** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 3:29 AM**

it was freaking hot out. i might not have been so determined to get this downtown trip done had I not been accompanied by Lecom.
6/9
The core is just below street level. Super exciting. Also you can see the first slanted beam of the base.

Scruffy · #**3068** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 3:33 AM**

Puzzlecraft · #**3069** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 5:01 AM**

Great photos, thanks. Real progress now, the slanted beams at the first corner and.... a couple cross beams! Just a massive amount of super-thick rebar too.

NYguy · #**3070** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 1:07 PM**

And the excitement continues to build. This is really a significant moment in the rise and fall and rise again of the WTC.

Dac150 · #**3071** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 2:13 PM**

I tell you, as each and every day passes I get more and more excited about the progress that is being made. Just give it a little longer and before you know it steel will shoot up out of the ground. This is what we've all been waiting for and it's beginning to happen.

Lt. Washburn · #**3072** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 4:23 PM**

What is the plan for the site immediately surrounding the tower? Will it be built up/filled in fairly quickly so that they can work on the tower from street level, or will the base remain in the open pit for a very long time?

Ghost · #**3073** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 5:36 PM**

I don't think they can build everything before the temporary PATH entrance is removed and the memorial starts to get its shape but they should be able to build the area right next to the tower. But the tower itself will rise anyway.

theWatusi · #**3074** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 8:21 PM**

awesome...things are moving along nicely now.

NYguy · #**3075** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 9:16 PM**

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Originally Posted by Dac150

I tell you, as each and every day passes I get more and more excited about the progress that is being made.

I get really excited when I think of the old skyline with the Twins, and the way they dominated, and how these towers will do the same. In a couple of years, when these towers are topped out, people will remember how special the WTC was on the lower Manhattan skyline.

NYguy · #**3076** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 9:18 PM**

From Graham Jenks

Kamatzu · #**3077** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 9:28 PM**

It's amazing to think of all the people and things that had passed through the walls of the World Trade Center. If buildings could talk, they would have alot to say... It had seen people like John Lennon, Frank Sinatra, and just the advancement of humanity in general was witnessed by the complex. Of course, if they could talk, they would probably win more science fairs than beauty pageants.

It's great to know that the new World Trade Center is rising to be just as much the wonderful complex that the old one was, and more.

As progress is made at a faster rate, the anticipation is starting to kick in. It's only a few milestones from completion now! From ground level, to the base, the floors, the antenna, and then the facade. On a galactic clock, it's a blink of an eye away!

RockMont · #**3078** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 10:12 PM**

As soon as the ground work and foundations are done, I think it'll speed up.

Kamatzu · #**3079** Posted: **Jun 10, 2008, 11:23 PM**

Maybe this I'm late to the answer of this question, but what exactly will the base consist of? No floors, I hear. But will it just be an empty void of steel and concrete? Mechanics?

Just a little confused on that. Surely someone here can spread their wisdom. =P

37TimPPG · #**3080** Posted: **Jun 11, 2008, 1:57 AM**

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Originally Posted by Kamatzu

Maybe this I'm late to the answer of this question, but what exactly will the base consist of? No floors, I hear. But will it just be an empty void of steel and concrete? Mechanics?

Just a little confused on that. Surely someone here can spread their wisdom. =P

The base won't just be an empty void of steel and concrete. Pretty sure the base will house most of the mechanicals of the FT.

The first 10 floors of 7 WTC house the ConEd substation.

The top few floors of FT will also house mechanicals. There will be 82 occupiable floors in FT.