The Manhattan district attorney, Robert M. Morgenthau, announced manslaughter charges on Monday against three construction supervisors and a subcontractor, saying their gross negligence in dismantling...
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20-FT. Wall Holds up Tower 4
Dec 16, 2008
When the Port Authority and Larry Silverstein announced last week's arbitration decision involving World Trade Center construction, the big news was the $50 million in penalties the PA must pay Silver...
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Arbitration Decision Regarding WTC Site 2 and 4
Dec 12, 2008
“The arbitration panel ruled that work must continue on World Trade Center sites 2 and 4 in order to complete the Port Authority’s site turnover obligations, and as a result the panel reinstated l...
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Sustainable Design a Priority at WTC
Dec 12, 2008
Rebuilding the World Trade Center (WTC) using sustainable materials, renewable resources, and energy-saving equipment is a top priority, according to Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) off...
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Port Authority Loses Arbitration Regarding Trade Center Delays
Dec 12, 2008
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey must pay about $49.5 million in penalties to developer Larry Silverstein for failing to meet an Oct. 5 deadline on work at the World Trade Center site, an...
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WTC Survivor Staircase Moves Again at Ground Zero
Dec 12, 2008
The "survivors' staircase" that served as an escape route for people fleeing the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, found a permanent home at ground zero Thursday.
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WTC Owner Loses $300K/day Dispute with Developer
Dec 12, 2008
The World Trade Center site's owner is paying developer Larry Silverstein another $26 million in late fees this year after an arbitrator ruled it hadn't turned over land on the site in buildable condi...
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A Ground-Level Glimpse of the Future WTC
Dec 10, 2008
Speaking at the Center for Architecture on December 8th, planners from Silverstein Properties, Maki and Associates, and Peter Walker Partners explained that their work on the three east-side towers is...
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Ground Zero, Gift-Wrapped for the Holidays
Dec 09, 2008
The National Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center is adorning its fund-raising effort with a seasonal theme. For $100, donors can sponsor a “cobblestone” on the memorial plaza. (...
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7 WTC Bucks Dire Forecasts
Dec 09, 2008
Mayor Bloomberg congratulated Larry Silverstein on the "continued success" of 7 World Trade Center last week - an overdue acknowledgment from Bloomberg, who once needled Silverstein for supposedly ask...
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City Lensman on WTC Mission
Dec 08, 2008
The runaway boy from a Purulia village who struck it big in photography after an NGO spotted his talent on the platforms of New Delhi railway station is now set to scale even greater heights. Vicky Ro...
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Silverstein Signs Bank at 7 WTC
Dec 05, 2008
In a hard-earned triumph for Larry Silverstein, German bank WestLB has leased the top three floors of 7 World Trade Center. The firm will move from 1211 Sixth Ave. into 129,000 square feet at the 52-s...
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WestLB Signs Major Lease at 7 World Trade Center
Dec 04, 2008
New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Silverstein Properties President & CEO Larry A. Silverstein today announced that WestLB, a leading German financial institution, has signed a 15-year lease...
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9/11 Museum Kicks off Holiday Cobblestone Campaign
Dec 02, 2008
The National September 11 Memorial & Museum is conducting its second annual holiday cobblestone campaign.
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Insurers Kick in Money for Deutsche Demo
Dec 02, 2008
Insurance companies recently paid $27.5 million toward the decontamination and demolition of the former Deutsche Bank building.
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Wishbone Takes Shape at Trade Center Site
Dec 02, 2008
Among the many complications facing the architects and engineers of 1 World Trade Center, also known as Freedom Tower, is that it is being built directly over an operating railroad. Its site coincides...
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Charge of No Leadership on Arts Center
Dec 02, 2008
One stakeholder at the World Trade Center site is voicing strong support for the oft-forgotten performing arts center.
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Silverstein Exec is Frustrated with Ports W.T.C. Progress
Dec 02, 2008
Silverstein Properties maintains this wall, built by the Port Authority, is in the way of its construction of Tower 4 on the World Trade Center site, but the Port says the wall is outside the property...
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Seeing the Trade Center Galleria, in Natural Light
Nov 23, 2008
Since summer, daylight has bathed the galleria of the new World Trade Center, pouring through the five-and-a-half-foot intervals between its rounded steel arches and creating a modernist version of th...
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Downtown Will Rise Again. It Always Does.
Nov 21, 2008
Along with 7 World Trade Center, the three office towers Silverstein Properties is building on Greenwich St. will be places of great architecture and green design (Image, page, 19). They will be part ...
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Trade Center Dispute Goes to Arbitration
Nov 21, 2008
An arbitration panel on Monday will begin hearing a dispute between the developer and the owner of the World Trade Center site involving issues that could lead to the delay of completing at least one ...
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German Lender Takes 7 WTC Space HSBC Abandoned
Nov 19, 2008
Less than two months after HSBC backed out of a massive lease agreement at 7 World Trade Center, Silverstein Properties has reached a tentative agreement on a new lease with German lender WestLB, sour...
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Silverstein Properties: Developer Creates Tower of Strength
Nov 17, 2008
Working for Larry Silverstein means enjoying daily access—and unlimited bragging rights—to a stunning 360-degree view of Manhattan and its surroundings. Lofty visions of the future are equally imp...
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Where Two Towers Once Stood, a Memorial Begins to Materialize
Nov 17, 2008
Of all the right angles that have been built at ground zero in the last three years, of all the places where steel meets steel at 90 degrees, there is no more meaningful angle right now than the one p...
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