Fraternity-Testvériség, 2001 (79. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
2001-04-01 / 2. szám
Page 4 TESTVÉRISÉG THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AT A GLANCE Facts • Fourth-largest building in the world • Had been the largest until 1974, when the Sears Tower was completed • Height: Two 110-story towers, 1,368 ft. & 1,362 ft. • Architect: Minoru Yamasaki • Cost to build: $1 billion • Workers: 40,000 office workers, and 10,000 others • Tenants: 430 businesses, incl. 75 stores & restaurants • Visitors: 200,000 people passed through the complex on a typical weekday, including workers and train passengers • 50,000 people took the PATH trains connecting New York and New Jersey • New York City’s N, R, A, C, E, 1, and 9 subway trains and New Jersey’s PATH commuter trains ran underneath the complex • Countries represented: 28 The complex • Two 110-floor towers • Housed 430 businesses with 50,000 total employees • Completed in 1976 • 43,000 windows • 200 elevators • 1,368 and 1,362 feet tall • 10 million square feet • Observation deck • Underneath the complex lay an enormous underground shopping center • 47-story office building • Two nine-story office buildings • 22-story, 800-room Marriott hotel • Eight-story U.S. customs house • 542,000 square feet of storage area • 16 acres Real Estate • Space: 10 percent of Lower Manhattan’s office market • Twice the size of downtown Tampa’s office market • Larger than downtown office markets of Miami, San Diego and San Jose • One of only three New York properties with its own ZIP code • Vacancy: 100 percent occupied • The $3.2 billion, 99-year lease bought by the Silverstein Properties, Inc. from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in July was the largest real estate transaction in history Largest tenants Tenant Square ft. % of space Morgan, Stanley Dean Witter 1.19 million 12.5 Port Authority of NY, NJ 848,641 9.3 Aon Risk Services 464,629 4.9 Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield 450,939 4.7 Marsh & McLennan 361,043 3.8 Bank of America 331,227 3.5 Deutsche Bank 310,727 3.5 Oppenheimer Funds 261,164 2.7 Guy Carpenter 265,196 2.8 Credit Suisse First Boston 243,953 2.6 History • Mid-1950s - Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller forms the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, which commissions a plan for reviving Lower Manhattan. • 1960 - The association proposes a $250 million, 70- story World Trade Center, designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill, for 13 acres at the East River end of Wall Street. The Port Authority, enlisted because of its debt-raising capacity and its power of eminent domain, agrees to sponsor the project. • 1961 - New Jersey Gov. Robert Meyner pressures the authority to accept control of the bankrupt Hudson & Manhattan Railroad - which would become the New York-New Jersey PATH subway - and forces the relocation of the proposed project to Lower Manhattan’s Hudson waterfront facing New Jersey. • January 1964 - Port Authority reveals architect Minoru Yamasaki’s plan for the World Trade Center, which includes twin 110-story towers that would be the tallest buildings on earth. • 1968 - Construction of the towers starts as 7,500 workers converge on the site. • Oct. 19, 1970 - A 30-foot section of steel is hoisted 103 stories to the top of Tower One, eclipsing the 1,250- foot Empire State Building by 4 feet. • April 4, 1973 - The World Trade Center is officially dedicated. • April 7,1974 - Daredevil Philippe Petit eludes guards and walks a tightrope between the two towers. • 1974 - Chicago’s Sears Tower eclipses the World Trade Center as the world’s tallest building. • Feb. 26,1993 - Terrorists set off a bomb in an underground garage at a spot they believed would cause the collapse of both towers. The explosion kills six, injures hundreds and causes $525 million of damage.
