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TexasTowelie

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Tue Jun 12, 2018, 12:50 AM Jun 2018

80-story 3 World Trade Center to open after years of delays

NEW YORK — An 80-story office building set to open this week at the World Trade Center will be the third completed skyscraper at the site where the twin towers stood.

Today’s ribbon-cutting for the 1,079-foot 3 World Trade Center marks a major step in the rebuilding of the site, stalled for years by disputes among government agencies, trade center developer Larry Silverstein, insurers and 9/11 victims’ family members who wanted the entire site to be preserved for eternity as a memorial.

The new $2.7 billion building, designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, has been the fifth-tallest building in New York City since construction topped out in 2016.

That designation seemed elusive in 2009 when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the trade center site and was battling with Silverstein over costs associated with rebuilding, sought to reduce 3 World Trade to a four-story “stump.”

Read more: http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018/06/11/nation-world-news/80-story-3-world-trade-center-to-open-after-years-of-delays/

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80-story 3 World Trade Center to open after years of delays (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2018 OP
living in Honolulu and never heard of this newspaper before lol nt msongs Jun 2018 #1
In that case this thread really is news! TexasTowelie Jun 2018 #2
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